[lit-ideas] Re: sZ
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2014 21:11:54 +0200
There was hardly any political repression - in the form of political
arrests, censorship and other stuff that would normally be meant by that
term - going on in Yugoslavia from approximately the student protests in
1968., which managed to induce the regime to adopt a more tolerant policy.
Žižek was born in 1947., so he would have been too young to fight
repression much earlier than that. It is possible that he participated in
the student protests in 1968. Tito eventually said that 'the students were
right' and many of those who participated in the student protests went on
to become members of the Communist Party. Žižek himself became a respected
academic under the Communist regime.
O.K.
On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 8:23 PM, Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
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> 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.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> http://www.openculture.com/2013/04/a_shirtless_slavoj_zizek_explains_the_purpose_of_philosophy_from_the_comfort_of_his_bed.html
>>>
>>> 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).
>>>
>>> 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.”
>>>
>>> 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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