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319 pages, Paperback
Published February 1, 2012
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Slavoj Žižek
652 books7,618 followersSlavoj Žižek is a Slovene sociologist, philosopher, and cultural critic.
He was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia (then part of SFR Yugoslavia). He received a Doctor of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Ljubljana and studied psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VIII with Jacques-Alain Miller and François Regnault. In 1990 he was a candidate with the party Liberal Democracy of Slovenia for Presidency of the Republic of Slovenia (an auxiliary institution, abolished in 1992).
Since 2005, Žižek has been a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Žižek is well known for his use of the works of 20th century French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan in a new reading of popular culture. He writes on many topics including the Iraq War, fundamentalism, capitalism, tolerance, political correctness, globalization, subjectivity, human rights, Lenin, myth, cyberspace, postmodernism, multiculturalism, post-marxism, David Lynch, and Alfred Hitchcock.
In an interview with the Spanish newspaper El País he jokingly described himself as an "orthodox Lacanian Stalinist". In an interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! he described himself as a "Marxist" and a "Communist."
He was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia (then part of SFR Yugoslavia). He received a Doctor of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Ljubljana and studied psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VIII with Jacques-Alain Miller and François Regnault. In 1990 he was a candidate with the party Liberal Democracy of Slovenia for Presidency of the Republic of Slovenia (an auxiliary institution, abolished in 1992).
Since 2005, Žižek has been a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Žižek is well known for his use of the works of 20th century French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan in a new reading of popular culture. He writes on many topics including the Iraq War, fundamentalism, capitalism, tolerance, political correctness, globalization, subjectivity, human rights, Lenin, myth, cyberspace, postmodernism, multiculturalism, post-marxism, David Lynch, and Alfred Hitchcock.
In an interview with the Spanish newspaper El País he jokingly described himself as an "orthodox Lacanian Stalinist". In an interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! he described himself as a "Marxist" and a "Communist."
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December 7, 2022
While I usually quite enjoy the talking Zizek in his lectures and movies, the writing Zizek really gave me some headaches. In this book, Zizek, as usual, prooves his very far spread knowledge on philosophy and politics, but in such an extend that it tends to be quite dry. He makes a lot of great points, especially when he´s working with Marx, but as a person who has never deepdived into postmodern philosophy, i found some parts in this book hard to read and also kind of unneccessary.
His writing is similar to his way of talking, he gets from one theme to the other, just that with his lectures and interviews, he usually jumps from postmodern ideology to dating apps to piss kinks, and not from one philosopher he hates to the other.
In Short: there are chapters that are really really good in this book and others who are simply dry and boring. The reading experience was usually a waiting for the dry parts to be over so that you can enjoy the rambling about Rammstein or woke culture. I would rather recommend watching his lecture on this book (first as tragedy, then as farce) and getting a different Zizek book, unless you happen to be someone who knows the current philosophical discourses and is interested in dissecting them. and so on and so on. *insert sniffing noise*
His writing is similar to his way of talking, he gets from one theme to the other, just that with his lectures and interviews, he usually jumps from postmodern ideology to dating apps to piss kinks, and not from one philosopher he hates to the other.
In Short: there are chapters that are really really good in this book and others who are simply dry and boring. The reading experience was usually a waiting for the dry parts to be over so that you can enjoy the rambling about Rammstein or woke culture. I would rather recommend watching his lecture on this book (first as tragedy, then as farce) and getting a different Zizek book, unless you happen to be someone who knows the current philosophical discourses and is interested in dissecting them. and so on and so on. *insert sniffing noise*
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