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February 16, 2006

Loving Father/Heartless Terrorist

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Eastern Europe's philosophical enfant terrible, Slavoj Žižek, after having broken down The Matrix and Fight Club, has something to say the "tragic-ethic grandeur" of the characters in TV's 24:

They are something like the psychological equivalent of decaffeinated coffee, doing all the horrible things the situation necessitates, without paying the subjective price for it.

What?!?  Žižek, whose latest book, The Parallax View comes out next month, writes for In These Times on moral ambiguity from the Bhagavad-Gita to Apocalypse Now.

February 16, 2006 in Philosophy |

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