[lit-ideas] Re: sZ
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2014 20:23:10 +0200
What was the political repression against which Zizek fought, and in which
country ? I don't think that there were any particular political
restrictions in the former Yugoslavia in the 1980s in place to repress
post-structuralist academic philosophy. Foucault was translated and
published, for example. Moreover, Zizek was supposedly a Communist, or at
least a Marxist.
O.K.
On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 2:16 PM, palma <palmaadriano@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> alas not the delicate persiflage of Barthes, but Zizek.
> a minor clown who got late into the scene for the political repression in
> his country, against which he valiantly fought. then subsumed, Marx would
> say by the bullshit of media, lacan, robespierre "light", etc.
> a colossal waste of clean sheet
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> On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 11:36 AM, <cblists@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> On 03 Jul 2014, at 22:43, Phil Enns <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> > A colleague suggested that I am not 'doing' philosophy properly,
>> > drawing on the following as a guide for how it's done.
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>> http://www.openculture.com/2013/04/a_shirtless_slavoj_zizek_explains_the_purpose_of_philosophy_from_the_comfort_of_his_bed.html
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>> I don't know what to think about Žižek (which is perhaps a polite way of
>> avoiding saying something negative). I like the epithet "clown prince of
>> academic superstardom" (and think that perhaps he does, too).
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>> About Žižek's “Philosophy does not solve problems ... The duty of
>> philosophy is not to solve problems, but to redefine problems, to show how
>> what we experience as a problem is a false problem. If what we experience
>> as a problem is a true problem, then you don’t need philosophy ... [just]
>> good science.”
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>> My response is to remind Žižek - and others - is the reminder that what
>> we now call 'science' was once known as 'natural philosophy', and is 'good'
>> only when those 'roots' - or 'foundations' - are clearly acknowledged and
>> (to stretch the metaphors) regularly examined for 'disease' and 'structural
>> defects'.
>>
>> Chris Bruce, in
>> Kiel, Germany
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