Agnes Heller and the Muselmänner

As told 3

“Even to be consistently evil, you need a presupposed goodness somewhere up there.”
49:17 Slavoj Zizek The Pressure of Meaningpub. 2014-12-20 · 1:59:32

“all these people... there was always, always, I emphasize this always, a rumor among them that there is one. There is one person... who retained his or her dignity.”
~0:00 A Lacanian Plea for Fundamentalism2000-09-18 · 1:26:03

“even to be consistently evil, you need a presupposed goodness. somewhere up there.”
49:17 Why Only an Atheist Can Believe2006-11-10 · 1:59:32

What it carries

one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)

contents · one story, 3 jobsuses

sincere fake ×2 Muselmänner ×2 fetishist disavowal ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by

Jerry Falwell3 Ágnes Heller3 Pat Robertson3 Jakob Ammann1 Colonel Francis Younghusband1 Roger Ebert1 James Bond / Goldfinger1 Truman Capote1

alongside works

World Trade Center2 United 932 Regulating Aversion2 The Little Book of Hollywood Clichés (Roger Ebert)1 Lacan Seminar 6 (Le désir et son interprétation)1 Borges on Kafka1 Anne Frank's Diary1 Leap of Faith2

Told together with

50% Leap of Faith (Steve Martin) 2 shared talks 20% European Toilet Designs 2 shared talks 4% Niels Bohr's horseshoe 2 shared talks

Every retelling 3

49:17 Slavoj Zizek The Pressure of Meaningpub. 2014-12-20 · 1:59:32

Philosopher Agnes Heller recounts that in Auschwitz barracks, the myth of a 'fully human' person who remained innocent was crucial for survival. Discovering this person was also a 'Muslim' (living dead) caused others to lose the will to live., illustrating sincere hypocrisy,Muselmänner

~0:00 A Lacanian Plea for Fundamentalism2000-09-18 · 1:26:03

Agnes Heller reported that even the most ruthless egotistic survivors in concentration camps always maintained a rumor that somewhere there was one person who had retained dignity; when they discovered this was fiction, they regressed to Muselmann state., illustrating fetishistic disavowal,ideology,fetish,Muselmänner

49:17 Why Only an Atheist Can Believe2006-11-10 · 1:59:32

Hungarian philosopher Agnes Heller (an Auschwitz survivor) describes how every barracks had a myth: somewhere in the next barracks was someone who still behaved like a full human being. The most dangerous moment was discovering this was a myth, people then lost the will to survive. Even to be consistently evil, you need a presupposed goodness somewhere., illustrating sincere hypocrisy,the neighbor,belief without belief