The elusive identity
from secularism to the quest for the Grail
“I is another”, or contradictory identity, the elusive identity; the massacre of the Innocents, secularism, the quest for the Grail, redemption, grace; Clouscard today, and the aftermath of the summer 2024 elections.
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Neither left nor right? Islamo-leftism?
What does the opposition between left and right mean today, and what does the term "Islamo-leftism" conceal?
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"I is another", or contradictory identity
How can we think the contradiction within the subject, the negativity immanent to the self, and why do we repress it?
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Birth and carnage - The Massacre of the Innocents
What is dialectic, if it hinges on the internal contradiction of a subject between opposed and mutually necessary moments?
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I am not who you think I am - The elusive identity
How can the notions of identity, indeterminacy and negativity, which lie at the heart of internal determination, be made concrete?
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Secularism, the truth of religion?
In what sense can secularism be called the "truth" of religion, that is, what accomplishes it by abolishing it?
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Clouscard by you - Answers to your questions
What does the critique of the distinction according to Bourdieu by Henri Lefebvre, and more broadly the work of Clouscard, teach us about how to think differences, relativism and determinism?
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The quest for the Grail, sanctimony or sacrilege?
The quest for the Grail, as Wagner takes it up again in Parsifal, is it a Christian piety or a sacrilegious work?
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Saving the saviour? Redemption - the end of the cycle or its new beginning?
What does the final formula of Parsifal, "Redemption to the redeemer," mean: does redemption close the cycle or set it going again?
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Neo-fascism and the ideology of desire - Clouscard, as relevant as ever (cf. Macron's ultra-warmongering remarks)
What does Michel Clouscard denounce in Néo-fascisme et idéologie du désir: desire and consumption, or the discourse claiming that the working class wallowed in the "consumer society"?
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From fidelity to grace - From substance to Subject
What does the separation of the Grail and the spear mean in the second act of Parsifal, and how can their reunion be understood as the passage from substance to subject?
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The matrix of all illusion: the past lived as present
Why does the fixation on the mother, which the second act of Parsifal stages, make the past be lived as a present, and how does this illusion concern modernity?
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For a "fresh and joyful" apocalypse?
What is this far right whose rise surprises everyone, and what political divide must be set against it in the face of the danger of war?
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After the vote - Entering a zone of turbulence
The day after the legislative elections, what fascism are we talking about, and how can it be identified through a concrete analysis of our era?
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TOO LATE?
Is it already too late to prevent the war waged by Atlanticist imperialism from becoming a world conflict?