The trick to dialectics isn’t addition of a thesis and an antithesis, it’s about negation. You remove the non-truths of the original to find the remaining realities. It’s how Marxists can argue that communism is the continuation of enlightenment thought after the failures of bourgeois democracy. Liberalism carries some of the truths of the enlightenment but doesn’t bring them fully to reality. Dialectics is negating the untruths to fully realize what should be there.
Like Zizek’s example. Man walks date back to her apartment, she asks if he’d like to come up for coffee. The man says “I don’t drink coffee,” she responds “it’s ok I don’t have any coffee.” We discover the silent truth of the situation by negating the excess lies surrounding it
The trick to dialectics isn’t addition of a thesis and an antithesis, it’s about negation. You remove the non-truths of the original to find the remaining realities. It’s how Marxists can argue that communism is the continuation of enlightenment thought after the failures of bourgeois democracy. Liberalism carries some of the truths of the enlightenment but doesn’t bring them fully to reality. Dialectics is negating the untruths to fully realize what should be there.
Like Zizek’s example. Man walks date back to her apartment, she asks if he’d like to come up for coffee. The man says “I don’t drink coffee,” she responds “it’s ok I don’t have any coffee.” We discover the silent truth of the situation by negating the excess lies surrounding it
Classic zizek
Then the man says “I would prefer not to”
Everything coming up Aces.
What was the saying again? That debates are less above proving who is right but about coming closer to the truth.
:zizek-joy: