/lit/ - Literature

>>8526136

>Individuals can't exist without society

Individuals existed long before society. By definition, they had to: society is comprised of individuals, whereas individuals are not comprised of society.

>>8522887

If you'd seen the girls who go to French universities, you'd want to become a lecturer/professor and shit-talk your way into their panties too.

>>8446787

Modern athletes have actually tried to recreate some of the marches/feats recorded at the Battle of Marathon, only to fail horribly.

>>8426366
>>8426385

I actually found this pretty interesting, by Zizek standards.

It's actually a good point. Surprisingly, it chimes in well with one of the few academically 'acceptable' conservatives, Roger Scruton, who says a lot more about architecture than many theorists - namely, as Zizek is saying, that it is a vehicle for ideology.

Indeed, weirdly for Zizek, it's actually pretty hard to fault. As a Hegelian, I think he's able to take the liberty of national stereotypes for his explanation in the differences between a given nation's toilets - what with Hegel having been one of the forefathers of 'romantic nationalism', and this idea of a national/cultural identity in the form of Zeitgeist and so on.