Event: A Philosophical Journey Through a Concept by Slavoj Zizek

Author:Slavoj Zizek [Zizek, Slavoj]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: Philosophy, Essays, Movements, Critical Theory, Performing Arts, Film & Video, History & Criticism
ISBN: 1612194117
Google: ap9wAwAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00J6Y98V8
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2014-08-25T21:00:00+00:00

The true adultery is not to copulate outside marriage, but to copulate in marriage without love: the simple adultery just violates the Law from outside, while marriage without love destroys it from within, turning the letter of the Law against its spirit. To paraphrase Brecht: what is a simple adultery compared to (the adultery that is a loveless) marriage! It is not by chance that Wagner’s underlying formula ‘marriage is adultery’ recalls the anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s motto ‘property is theft’ – in the stormy revolutionary times of 1848, Wagner was not only a Feuerbachian celebrating sexual love,69 but also a Proudhonian revolutionary demanding the abolition of private property; so no wonder that, a little later in the play, Wagner attributes to Jesus a Proudhonian supplement to ‘Thou shalt not steal!’:

This also is a good law: Thou shalt not steal, nor covet another man’s goods. Who goeth against it, sinneth: but I preserve you from that sin, inasmuch as I teach you: Love thy neighbour as thyself; which also meaneth: Lay not up for thyself treasures, whereby thou stealest from thy neighbour and makest him to starve: for when thou hast thy goods safeguarded by the law of man, thou provokest thy neighbour to sin against the law.70

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