zizek

People have a misconception about what philosophy is because pop 'philosophy' like Zizek is more about generating controversy than useful inquiry.

Apart from the linked video, do you have any suggestions for approaching Zizek as a philosopher, or for giving context to his works?

Slavoj Zizek is really well known in the US and he's Slovenian.

I believe Slavoj Zizek (who's quote is at the top of the article) would have a lot to say about that.

Which is exactly the point Zizek was making.

>he thinks psychoanalysis explains human history The kind of theoritical psychoanalysis Zizek talks about is not really classic psychoanalysis at all.

His literature is respected across the aisle, but also considered to be very right-wing (he was pro-military dictatorships, anti-feminist, etc.) To chalk a majority of Argentinean literary culture to him would be to severely underestimate how popular things like Psychoanalysis and Zizek are over there.

Slavoj Zizek has been persistently arguing (though I don't think he claims the original observation as his own) that 'western' liberal-capitalist democracy has developed a dangerous infatuation with the Singapore model of authoritarian capitalism and its pro-forma ather than substantive approach to democracy.

" First sentence spoken in Zizek video: " They Live from 1988 is definitely one of the forgotten masterpieces of the Hollywood left.

Beyond Wittgenstein's take on philosophy as therapy is Zizek's (implicit) take on philosophy as entertainment.

If you want more info about the fake left, go read Zizek's piece on the morally corrupt fake left championing of Islamist criminal apologism.

For example, philosophers (Zizek included) raved about Badiou's Number and Numbers.