Opinion of Slavoj Zizek

[The Mikado]

I know next to nothing about this contemporary Eastern European philosopher.  A good friend of mine, years ago (must've been 2003) told me that reading Zizek would change my life.  I never took him up on that and I'm starting to wonder if I should.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

A vagina lacking in gorm.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Lacanian Neo-Leninist (Maoist? Stalinist?) Nutter who is seemingly unable to ever structure more than three sentences into a coherent paragraph about anything at all. In short if you like Byzantine self-contradictory political theory explained through even more Byzantine self-contradictory French Psychoanalysis, then Zizek is for you.

[The Mikado]

Lacanian Neo-Leninist (Maoist? Stalinist?) Nutter who is seemingly unable to ever structure more than three sentences into a coherent paragraph about anything at all. In short if you like Byzantine self-contradictory political theory explained through even more Byzantine self-contradictory French Psychoanalysis, then Zizek is for you.

A vagina lacking in gorm.

I have my answer.  I will not be picking up Zizek.

[Mariborchan]

Lacanian Neo-Leninist (Maoist? Stalinist?) Nutter who is seemingly unable to ever structure more than three sentences into a coherent paragraph about anything at all. In short if you like Byzantine self-contradictory political theory explained through even more Byzantine self-contradictory French Psychoanalysis, then Zizek is for you.

A vagina lacking in gorm.

I have my answer.  I will not be picking up Zizek.

Wow, you're easy to convince, aren't you? Or do you know the person you're talking to that well, that you're willing to take his word for it? Considering this is a politics forum is it really so surprising that people would react so negatively to a political thinker?

He recently published a really short, readable book where he basically explains his politics. The book is called First as Tragedy, Then as Farce and I truly recommend it. Žižek may be called a Leninist but is in no way a Stalinist. And these labels themselves can't tell you much about a thinker.

[Earth]

An FF with a few waffles.

Lacanian Neo-Leninist (Maoist? Stalinist?) Nutter who is seemingly unable to ever structure more than three sentences into a coherent paragraph about anything at all. In short if you like Byzantine self-contradictory political theory explained through even more Byzantine self-contradictory French Psychoanalysis, then Zizek is for you.

I really can't recommend his articles enough. Many of them are very coherent.

On the West Bank

Various

[Bo]

HP.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

An FF with a few waffles.

Lacanian Neo-Leninist (Maoist? Stalinist?) Nutter who is seemingly unable to ever structure more than three sentences into a coherent paragraph about anything at all. In short if you like Byzantine self-contradictory political theory explained through even more Byzantine self-contradictory French Psychoanalysis, then Zizek is for you.

I really can't recommend his articles enough. Many of them are very coherent.

On the West Bank

Various

To be honest I was mostly basing my opinions on that work he did on Lenin and a book entitled something like You call that Totaltarianism, oh and some of the film commentary he did. When he's not using Lacan as a crutch for his arguments or trying to fit into the fashionable beardy-lefty cliche he can be interesting.

[Lunar]

I remember highschool debaters liked him partially because of how obtuse and difficult to understand he is (while at the same time arriving at bold conclusions).

[Tetro Kornbluth]

I remember highschool debaters liked him partially because of how obtuse and difficult to understand he is (while at the same time arriving at bold conclusions).

Now that's definetly true.

[minionofmidas]

On the West Bank

Read that before. Perfectly true, and nothing new of course, but hardly philosophy or political theory.