Freedom by Slavoj Žižek

Author:Slavoj Žižek
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781350357143
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2023-09-20T00:00:00+00:00

one needs an immortal soul in order to: have enough time to pay off all the credit cards, student loans, medical bills, and mortgages; put away money for a university education that still will plunge one’s own children into staggering debt themselves; save for a viable retirement in which one would not be reduced to eating canned dog food …27

How to account for the dynamic of endless expansion shared by capitalism and Communism? Johnston follows here a series of thinkers from Hegel and Marx to Lacan and Althusser, whom all locate the key feature that pushes the (to-be-human) animal into labour and social relations: the helplessness of the newborn baby who needs much more parental care for a much longer time than other mammals; to this helplessness, he adds plasticity—human nature is not ready-made, it doesn’t provide humans with a preordained set of properties that would enable them to survive, so that humans have to construct a complex network of work and social patterns:

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