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Nazi ethics book and Karadžić, inner life as enabling atrocity

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Žižek read a book called 'Nazi Ethics' and draws on the case of Radovan Karadžić (a poet) to argue that inner life and poetry are structurally necessary for ethnic cleansing, the poetical self-narration allows perpetrators to perform horror by constructing noble lies.

As told 2

“there is no ethnic cleansing without poetry it's not just Karadžić Bosnia go around a friend from Rwanda I met him in London told me that the crucial role of poetry in ethnic cleansing”
37:34 Hegel in a Wired Brain2020-07-28 · 38:30
“the woman a lady is interested in this simple fact Nazis were doing horrible things what stories were they telling to themselves to justify or to make it tolerable for them to do what they were doing”

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37:34 Hegel in a Wired Brain2020-07-28 · 38:30
Žižek read a book called 'Nazi Ethics' and draws on the case of Radovan Karadžić (a poet) to argue that inner life and poetry are structurally necessary for ethnic cleansing, the poetical self-narration allows perpetrators to perform horror by constructing noble lies., illustrating inner life as ideological fiction,no ethnic cleansing without poetry
A woman's book on 'Nazi ethics' (provocative title, author forgotten) examines what self-justificatory stories Nazis told to make tolerable the atrocities they committed, illustrating that inner experience is a constructed lie designed to cover external reality, not a window to truth., illustrating the fundamental lie (of inner experience),subjectivity