Chesterton's philosophical policeman

As told 6

“The ordinary detective discovers from a ledger that a crime has been committed. We discover from a book of sonnets that a crime will be committed.”
9:47 Is It Still Possible to be An Hegelian Today?2011-03-31 · 58:35

“The ordinary detective discovers from a diary that a crime has been committed. We discover from a book of sonnets that a crime will be committed.”
22:01 The Empowerment of the Right and the Dissolution of the Left2011-11-05 · 1:24:25

“We discover from a book of sonnets that a crime will be committed.”
24:15 Freedom in the Clouds2011-10-21 · 1:35:48

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

philosophical policeman ×3 totality ×2 critique of ideology ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by

Karl Popper6 Pranav Mistry2 Pierre-Joseph Proudhon2 André Bazin2 Emmanuel Levinas6 Raoul Walsh1 Walter Benn Michaels1 Charles Baudelaire1

alongside works

The Man Who Was Thursday5 Go West2 Shane2 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers2 Pursued2 High Noon2 Silver Blaze2 Warum bleiben wir in der Provinz?1

Told together with

29% Wagner's Jesus of Nazareth: marriage is adultery 2 shared talks 19% China banning time-travel and alternate-history narratives 3 shared talks 18% Polish socialist store, no butter, no toilet paper 2 shared talks 12% Da Vinci Code / Da Vinci, sex displaced onto Jesus 2 shared talks 11% Dating agencies: 'find love without the fall' 2 shared talks 10% Organic apples as ideology 2 shared talks 10% They Live / critique of ideology glasses 2 shared talks 9% Brassed Off coffee invitation 2 shared talks 9% Starbucks ethical consumerism 3 shared talks 6% coffee without cream / coffee without milk 3 shared talks

Every retelling 6

9:47 Is It Still Possible to be An Hegelian Today?2011-03-31 · 58:35

Chesterton ironically proposed a corps of philosopher-policemen who detect dangerous ideas before crimes occur; Žižek argues this is exactly what liberal anti-totalitarians (Popper, Adorno, Levinas, Glucksmann) do, tracing a straight road from philosophical totality to political totalitarianism., illustrating philosophical police,liberal anti-Hegelianism,ideology of anti-totality

22:01 The Empowerment of the Right and the Dissolution of the Left2011-11-05 · 1:24:25

From The Man Who Was Thursday: a philosophical policeman detects crimes not from diaries but from books of sonnets, he reads future crimes in present philosophy. Žižek uses this to critique the Popperian/Adornian move of tracing totalitarianism to philosophical totality., illustrating philosophical policeman,critique of liberal anti-totalitarianism

24:15 Freedom in the Clouds2011-10-21 · 1:35:48

In The Man Who Was Thursday Chesterton ironically proposes a corps of philosophical detectives who read future crimes in books of sonnets and Plato's dialogues. Žižek uses the figure to critique the 'from Plato to NATO' tradition but inverts the policeman's role: true philosophers show systems subverting themselves., illustrating philosophical duty,totality,critique of totalitarianism discourse

36:08 Communism – A New Beginning?2012 · 1:54:19

From Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday: a special corps of philosophical policemen who go to artistic tea parties to detect pessimists, reading books of sonnets to anticipate crimes, Žižek uses this to show how liberal anti-totalitarianism actually functions as cultural-philosophical policing., illustrating philosophical policeman,totality,liberal anti-totalitarianism,the road from Plato to NATO

23:03 Great Minds2011-07-01 · 1:30:44

Chesterton proposed in The Man Who Was Thursday a special corps of philosophical policemen who detect from books of sonnets that a crime will be committed. Žižek uses this to frame the intellectual's critical task., illustrating role of the intellectual,ideology critique

14:05 Slavoj Žižek Masterclass: Jacques Lacan: A Lateral Introduction. Part 7pub. 2018-11-28 · 1:33:07

Reference to G.K. Chesterton's story where police look for criminals by reading sonnets and attending intellectual parties, used to critique Adorno/Popper's fear of 'totalitarian crimes' in thought., illustrating totalitarianism to cut a long story short