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teleological
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Is there a whole which can teleologically justify and thus redeem or sublate an event such as the Holocaust?

—p.153 Allegro: (151) by Slavoj Žižek
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bombast

no longer Wagner as the poet of Teutonic mythology, of bombastic heroic grandeur

—p.130 Molto adagio – Andante: (119) by Slavoj Žižek
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symbolic efficiency

One is tempted here to use that old Levi-Straussian term ‘symbolic efficiency’: the appearance of égaliberté is a symbolic fiction which, as such, possesses an actual efficiency of its own.

not really sure what it means here tbh

—p.129 Molto adagio – Andante: (119) by Slavoj Žižek
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topoi

Isn’t one of the topoi of Western liberalism the elevation of the Other as leading a life that is more harmonious, organic, less competitive, and aiming at cooperation rather than domination?

—p.126 Molto adagio – Andante: (119) by Slavoj Žižek
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imbroglio

Marx’s analysis of the political imbroglio of the French Revolution of 1848 comes to mind.

—p.112 Presto: (89) by Slavoj Žižek
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