Don Giovanni and the Stone Guest

As told 5

“He insists, 'no I don't repent.' It's a kind of ethical act, fidelity to because he doesn't have anything to profit.”
Slavoj Žižek Masterclass: Jacques Lacan: A Lateral Introduction. Part 2pub. 2018-11-28 · 1:56:22

“Don Giovanni knows he has nothing to gain by remaining faithful to his sinful life… nonetheless he insists it's evil as precisely evil be thou my good”
1:14:05 The Interaction with the Other in Hegel2009 · 2:07:30

“Don Giovanni knows he has nothing to gain by remaining faithful to his sinful life... nonetheless he insists it's evil as precisely evil”
1:13:20 Slavoj Žižek — On G.W.F. Hegel, Lecture 3 [Remaster]2009-08 · 2:42:02

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, 4 jobsuses

immoral ethics ×3 ne pas céder sur son désir ×2 radical evil ×2 Kant with Sade ×2

Its cast and sources

populated by

George Balanchine3 Italo Calvino2 Sergio Leone3 Anton Webern3 Julian Jaynes2 Marlon Brando2 Jim Carrey2 Maurice Merleau-Ponty2

alongside works

Once Upon a Time in America3 Theme of the Traitor and Hero2 Spider's Stratagem2 Days of Sodom2 Don Giovanni5 Mulholland Drive3 The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind2 Humanism and Terror2

Told together with

40% Stalin as Politburo note-taker 2 shared talks 33% Balanchine ballet with Webern: music stops, dancing continues 2 shared talks 33% Avital Ronell / Badiou catches her on betraying the master 2 shared talks 29% Mulholland Drive: the singer collapses but the song continues 2 shared talks 29% Jim Carrey's The Mask, mask as true self 2 shared talks 29% General della Rovere (Rossellini) 2 shared talks 22% Stalin applause, no one dares stop first 2 shared talks 22% Zeuxis and Parrhasius 2 shared talks 19% Antigone rewritten, three alternate scenarios 3 shared talks 10% They Live / critique of ideology glasses 2 shared talks

Every retelling 5

Slavoj Žižek Masterclass: Jacques Lacan: A Lateral Introduction. Part 2pub. 2018-11-28 · 1:56:22

Don Giovanni refuses to repent when faced with death, choosing hell over renouncing his desire, illustrating an 'immoral ethics' of fidelity to oneself., illustrating immoral ethics

1:14:05 The Interaction with the Other in Hegel2009 · 2:07:30

At the climax of Mozart's opera, the Stone Guest gives Don Giovanni a chance to repent and be saved; Giovanni refuses seven times and goes to hell. This is a pure ethical act: he has nothing to gain from persisting, yet insists on his evil as his supreme good., illustrating radical evil,evil be thou my good,Kant with Sade

1:13:20 Slavoj Žižek — On G.W.F. Hegel, Lecture 3 [Remaster]2009-08 · 2:42:02

The Stone Guest offers Don Giovanni a chance to repent and be saved; Don Giovanni refuses seven times, insisting on his evil even at the cost of hell, performing a pure ethical act of evil., illustrating radical diabolical evil,Kant-Sade

22:12 Why Todestrieb is a Philosophical Concept2009-03-06 · 1:29:44

In Mozart's Don Giovanni, the stone guest offers redemption; Don Giovanni refuses even knowing he will burn in hell, not for pleasure but out of principle, as fidelity to his chosen life. This is immoral ethics at its purest., illustrating immoral ethics,fidelity to desire,ne pas céder sur son désir

~0:02 First as Tragedy, then as Farce2010-01-05 · 2:21:08

Facing the stone statue's ultimatum, Don Giovanni could have renounced his sins and been saved, but heroically refuses, from no utilitarian benefit. This is Žižek's emblem of capitalism's diabolical ethics: the system must go on even if we all die., illustrating radical evil,demonic ethics of capitalism