In line with the aim of this issue of Filozofski vestnik, which proposes to rethink the importance of Kantian philosophy for contemporary debates on the concepts of the subject and the object, I will attempt to develop the consequences of one of Kant's “conceptual monster”, namely that of transcendental reflection. Initially, I will follow Kant’s line of thought, which – however – will immanently lead to a certain theoretical deadlock, or “contradiction,” which in turn will open up the possibility of a passage from (Kantian) reflection to (Hegelian-Lacanian) speculation, and thus also to a notion of the subject that is at odds with Kant’s argument but comes to light the moment we push the argument to the extreme of its consequences.
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The research article discusses, on various levels, the relationship between Power and authority, on the on hand, and jokes, comedy and laughter, on the other. By way of analyzing the structural relation between critical comedy and (Marxist) critique of capitalism, the first section of the article draws out the difference between ideological use of laughter, relying on mechanisms of mediation and distantiation, and the use of laughter in comedy. Against this backdrop, section two of the article illustrates and further develops the initial thesis by offering an interpretation of some of the key aspects of Chaplin’s Modern Times. The concluding section focuses on the conceptual status of the figure of the Tramp and on the paradoxical structure of Chaplin’s “silent talkie.”
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Against the backdrop of the problem of a conception of materialist dialectic, the research article analyses the logic and the dialectic of anti-Semitism. It analyses various forms of negativity, as implied in classical, intuitionistic, and paraconsistent logic, as well as the possibility of relating them to the forms of negativity as conceived by Lacanian psychoanalysis. The article attempts to demonstrate how these modes of negativity form the matrix of the Hegelian dialectical movement, relying on an objectal remainder as the embodiment of the gap of tautology.
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