Slavoj Žižek discusses free will, determinism, historicism, grief, fetishism, quantum physics, Heinrich Himmler, the Enlightenment, and much more.

How can the Cartesian idea of the subject survive in a deterministic universe?

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Slavoj Žižek is a globally renowned philosopher and cultural critic. Join him in conversation with author Joanna Kavenna, as they discuss the intersection of his ideas and his personal life.

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Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenianborn political philosopher currently serving as International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities. He has become worldrenowned for his fearless overturning of the liberal left’s founding assumptions.

00:00 Introduction
01:36 Fetishism in grief
02:34 Heinrich Himmler
04:51 Soviet propaganda
05:50 Hegel in a wired brain
06:30 Free will vs determinism
07:07 Sabine Hossenfelder
07:50 I oppose historicism
09:20 Quantum physics
11:04 Is reality discrete or continuous?
12:14 Freedom is not contingency
13:35 Understanding history
14:20 What is subjectivity?


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