Slavoj Žižek: Is Hegel Dead—Or Are We Dead in the Eyes of Hegel? A Hegelian View of the Present Age

Deutsches Haus at NYU and the Department of German at NYU present a talk by Slavoj Žižek, Global Distinguished Professor of German at NYU, who will speak on “Is Hegel Dead—Or Are We Dead in the Eyes of Hegel? A Hegelian View of the Present Age.” Introduced by Avital Ronell, Professor of German and Comparative Literature at NYU. The question we should ask is not: is “Hegel“ still alive, is his thought of any use for us today? The true question is: what are we - our global capitalist world - in the eyes of Hegel? What if, from the Hegelian standpoint, we are all dead - in what sense? Wolf Bierman once wrote that, while the spiritualist question is “Is there life after death?“ the materialist question is: “Is there life before death?“ Are we really alive today, alive in the sense of ecstatic opening which makes life worth living? Slavoj Žižek, Ph.D., is a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and a visiting professor at a number of American Universities (Columbia,