The "terminally depressive" detective Morck, the hero of A Conspiracy Of Faith (original title Flaskepost[Message In a Bottle], a 2016 Danish noir), personifies a unique ethical stance: as an irredeemable atheist, is ready to sacrifice his life for others at any time. Starting from this fictional example, one will try to demonstrate why only a radical atheist who dispenses with any form of the reliance on a big Other (God, Society, Good) can today save the emancipatory legacy of the Christian tradition.
Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek is Professor of Philosophy at The European Graduate School (EGS), senior researcher at the Institute for Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, and founder and president of the Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis, Ljubljana. Since The Sublime Object of Ideology in 1989, his first book in English, Žižek has published over 40 books, spanning from political theory to cultural studies and bringing together the influences of Hegelian idealism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and Marxist thought. His most recent publication is Lenin 2017: Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through (2017). The International Journal of Žižek Studies, founded in 2007, is dedicated to the study of his work.
Organization:
Prof. Dr. Thomas Claviez, thomas.claviez@ens.unibe.ch
For all organizational details, please contact dls@wbkolleg.unibe.ch
