Both. :smirk:Is Žižek a serious philosopher or a stand up comedian? Or both? — Tom Storm
Maybe for 'idealists in analysis' ...Is his work on Hegel or Lacan useful?
Lacanian-Hegelian Marxist (and so on and so on...)Can he really be considered a Hegelo-Lacanian?
I don't think Žižek is p0m0 at all. For me, his most philosophically significant works are these:Where would he sit in the context of a post-modern tradition and what would be his most significant works?
No one seems to discuss his ideas or contributions, — Mikie
Is Žižek a serious philosopher or a stand up comedian? Or both? — Tom Storm
I don’t see much of interest, in what I’ve read. Seems like a lot of fluff. — Mikie
He's a serious philosopher who made the "mistake" of having a sense of humour, being entertaining, and relating his work to everyday life. — Baden
I think it would be very difficult on reading and understanding one of his books to come to that conclusion. I've fully read "Violence", "Enjoy your Symptom", and "How to Read Lacan" so far, as well as much of "the Parallax View" and "the Sublime Object of ldeology". — Baden
Would it be fair to say he is a divisive figure? — Tom Storm
I'm never going to get into Lacan or Hegel - it's just not an interest of mine and I am too old - does he have a useful reading of these guys? — Tom Storm
Not true. E. g.
https://sites.cardiff.ac.uk/zizekcentre/
https://zizekstudies.org — Baden
The only fellow academic of major standing that I know of and respect highly who outright rejects him is Chomsky. — Baden
If that’s true that’s interesting. Between Chomsky’s comments and a number of lectures/debates I’ve watched, and some SEP reading. — Mikie
He has drawbacks: his scholarship is quite bad; he is prone to exaggeration and even makes things up(!) and he has a tendency to want to complicate or extend a certain type of "Hegelian logic" way beyond specific instances in which such a counter-intuitive way of thinking may be of use or of interest. — Manuel
So, it's a mixed bag, — Manuel
Thanks. The lectures are quite interesting to watch (I've probably seen a dozen or so) but I often find at the end of them I haven't been left with anything much. — Tom Storm
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