I really don't see what the big deal is with zizek. He talks about Hegel and shit, but all I've ever gotten out of him was that he's a total dope nose.
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What is philosophy? For the most part, educated white dudes that smoke copious quantities of weed.
Or other drugs. Imagine the astounding insights that might come to light if all the speed freaks of the NA mid-west had 8 year degrees. It's sad really.
It's a brilliant shell game the philosophizers have pulled off. Reference Derrida and you're perceived as intelligent, quote Chuck D and you're a simpleton.
I wrote post-modern, but should have written post-structural instead. I read in AVS to Post-structuralism by Catherine Balsey that although Zizek rejects Derrida and the label of post-structuralism he none-the-less may be seen as one because of Saussurean influence and problematics of the signifier. However, she writes "The question of Zizek's poststructuralism, then, may be finally undecidable"
@pawsoned he's not elusive at all, he's opposed to (and thereby influenced by) post-modernism and applies lacanian theory to marxism, which is very much based on hegel
@Muaver Oh yeah, that's pretty much my impression too, the more I read Zizek the more I think about Derridean method of deconstructing a view by reversing its sense. I think it's one of Zizek's methods as well, although he overtly disavows himself from any kind of post-modern or post-structural affinity. Compare e.g. Deluzian concept of bodies without organs and Zizek's book about Deleuze called "Organs without bodies". So yeah I would say that he is much influenced by the thing he is opposed to
@pawsoned No, both are influenced by the dialectic. Derrida talks about the trace and Zizek talks about the negation. It has to do with Hegel's shared influence, not Derrida being suppressed by Zizek.
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consuetudinariness 1 week ago
@AddictedToAndrea what ist so called analytical philosophy? Start read Hegel, do something more substantial then analytical philosophy
absinth1987 2 months ago
Hegel's what? Suitor? Looter?
JerseyFinch 2 months ago
@JerseyFinch Hegel's Luther
absinth1987 2 months ago
I really don't see what the big deal is with zizek. He talks about Hegel and shit, but all I've ever gotten out of him was that he's a total dope nose.
ugoodHomeBoy 4 months ago
the most difficult question in philosophy: what is philosophy?
arizona89 5 months ago
@arizona89 fuck off
Muaver 3 months ago
@Muaver you really must hate yourself...
arizona89 3 months ago
@Muaver sorry, but this is the wrong answer
absinth1987 3 months ago
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What is philosophy? For the most part, educated white dudes that smoke copious quantities of weed.
Or other drugs. Imagine the astounding insights that might come to light if all the speed freaks of the NA mid-west had 8 year degrees. It's sad really.
It's a brilliant shell game the philosophizers have pulled off. Reference Derrida and you're perceived as intelligent, quote Chuck D and you're a simpleton.
cdeization 5 months ago
@cdeization Wow, you're so right. You really know a lot about this don't you.You must have read a lot of philosophy.
loztallis 5 months ago 9
well, that's one way of teaching the history of philosophy.
123gwf 7 months ago
Zizek is so elusive as a philosopher. Post-modern, Marxist, Lacanian, and now Hegelian?
pawsoned 10 months ago
@pawsoned
I don't think that Zizek has ever claimed to be postmodern...the rest, obviously, yes.
pazomblez 9 months ago
@pazomblez
I wrote post-modern, but should have written post-structural instead. I read in AVS to Post-structuralism by Catherine Balsey that although Zizek rejects Derrida and the label of post-structuralism he none-the-less may be seen as one because of Saussurean influence and problematics of the signifier. However, she writes "The question of Zizek's poststructuralism, then, may be finally undecidable"
pawsoned 9 months ago
@pawsoned
oh, i see. yes, post-structuralism wouldn't be so unreasonable to attribute to him...
There's more to post-structuralism than Derrida...even though it seems like that isn't the case a lot of the time..lol
pazomblez 9 months ago
@pazomblez weird to see a comment about philosophy end in lol.
100FingeredMonkey 6 months ago
@pawsoned he's not elusive at all, he's opposed to (and thereby influenced by) post-modernism and applies lacanian theory to marxism, which is very much based on hegel
Muaver 3 months ago
@Muaver Oh yeah, that's pretty much my impression too, the more I read Zizek the more I think about Derridean method of deconstructing a view by reversing its sense. I think it's one of Zizek's methods as well, although he overtly disavows himself from any kind of post-modern or post-structural affinity. Compare e.g. Deluzian concept of bodies without organs and Zizek's book about Deleuze called "Organs without bodies". So yeah I would say that he is much influenced by the thing he is opposed to
pawsoned 3 months ago
@pawsoned No, both are influenced by the dialectic. Derrida talks about the trace and Zizek talks about the negation. It has to do with Hegel's shared influence, not Derrida being suppressed by Zizek.
featheon 6 days ago
Thanks for the post. Is the rest of this lecture available? Do you know where I could find it?
roryphelan 1 year ago 4