Dostoevsky in Manhattan
anecdote · literature ·
retold in 3 talks
André Glucksmann applied Dostoevsky's warning about godless nihilism to 9/11, but Žižek argues the lesson is inverted: if there is a God, everything, including terrorism, is permitted.
As told 2
“If there is a god, then everything, even blowing up hundreds of innocent bystanders, is permitted.”
“alyosha karamazov becomes a terrorist. against the state authority.”
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
ideology as false depth
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subject supposed to believe
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obscene underside
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Its cast and sources
populated by
Nicaragua1Daniel Bell1André Glucksmann1Tarana Burke1Giorgia Meloni1Eva Wiseman1Jeremy Bentham1Heinrich von Kleist1
alongside works
Every retelling 2
André Glucksmann applied Dostoevsky's warning about godless nihilism to 9/11, but Žižek argues the lesson is inverted: if there is a God, everything, including terrorism, is permitted., illustrating ideology as a lie
Žižek claims that in the unfinished next part of The Brothers Karamazov, the protagonist Alyosha would have become a terrorist against state authority, suggesting Dostoevsky's complex view on rebellion., illustrating revolution-violence,ideology