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An Interview with Slavoj Zizek HM: What was the conjunctural situation that gave rise to the Ljubljana Lacanians? What was it that Lacan offered, given the other philosophical positions that were on offer? SZ: Let me briefly give you the parameters. When I was young, when those of my generation were young students, the ruling philosophy close to the communist nomenklatura was the Frankfurt School - not so much Adornoesque, but a kind of Marcuse combined with a kind of Habermas. The general idea was that it is there that you get the philosophical foundations for Yugoslav self- management. The main opposition - philosophically speaking - was Heideggerianism. There were some others, but when we were young the big surprise for us was that these were the official enemies. Then, in the late 1960s, a vogue for so-called structuralism emerged. What surprised us was how, though they were officially enemies, both the Frankfurt School and the Heideggerians attacked Althusser with highly personal as well as theoretical ferocity. Any mention of Althusser was considered the ultimate horror for them. So this was our first surprise: 'My god, the official enemies had learned to speak the same language!' It was
Historical Materialism – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2000
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