Friedrich the Great defined himself (the king) as “the first servant of State”, and this is how, from the early Enlightenment onwards, a master justifies his rule: he is in reality the greatest servant, the servant of all his subjects/servants. As expected, this false humility can justify the most brutal terror - Stalin fully belongs to this space. But there are different modalities of this position of “serving the servants”, from technocracy and religious fundamentalism to obscene master-clown, or even, as Mao Ze Dong can be characterized, to a “Lord of Misrule”, a master who periodically organizes rebellions against his own rule.
Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher, cultural theorist and public intellectual. He is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London, visiting professor at New York University and a senior researcher at the University of Ljubljana’s Department of Philosophy.
The international philosophical conference The Master/s (22-24 September 2022, Cultural and Congress Centre Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana) was organized by the International Hegelian Association Aufhebung, Goethe-Institut Ljubljana, Cultural and Congress Centre Cankarjev dom and the University of Ljubljana - Faculty of Arts.
The conference was part of the project The Theatricality of Power (J6-1812), which is financed by the Slovenian Research Agency.
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