Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
That is because is he isn't one.
Slavoj Žižek - any good?
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Karamazov#1
Good, Bad and Ugly
Jurgen Habermas isn't one either but his work doesn't exactly make for easy reading. Foucault however is very easy to read, even if you don't agree with what he's saying.
kavenism
Progressive misanthrope
He is one of the leading figures in bringing Lacan to a wider audience particularly those who have had no exposure to him during their Philosophy studies. His Looking Awry (an introduction to Lacan through popular culture) is a brilliant guide to some of the most obscure of his concepts, although I think he misreads Lacan as he applies him to Kafka’s The Trial. Oddly enough the best introduction to Lacan I ever read was a recent book on the work of David Lynch by Todd McGowan called The Impossible. The way he brings together Marx’s theory of surplus value and the Lacanian notion of surplus enjoyment (much better than Zizek did it) and then uses it to interrogate the implicit capitalistic relations in Eraserhead is remarkable.
Zizek is ridiculously popular at the moment which for a philosopher (particularly one with as “obscene” an ego-ideal as him) with a habit of showing off and who demonstrates a desire to forge a career in stand up comedy is problematic. He can be repetitive but I feel that is not because he has fewer ideas than other intellectuals but is more to do with his knee jerk book release schedule, he tends to rearrange and expand on ideas more than developing a system of thought. His smaller books like the ones about 9/11 and Iraq tend to be mixtures of smaller lectures and articles padded out with a little extra introduction. For me his best works are his larger volumes:
The Ticklish Subject
The Parallax View
In defence of Lost causes
Although if your into Lacan/Cultural Theory then Enjoy your symptom is pretty entertaining. And perverts guide to cinema is awesome.
Zizek is ridiculously popular at the moment which for a philosopher (particularly one with as “obscene” an ego-ideal as him) with a habit of showing off and who demonstrates a desire to forge a career in stand up comedy is problematic. He can be repetitive but I feel that is not because he has fewer ideas than other intellectuals but is more to do with his knee jerk book release schedule, he tends to rearrange and expand on ideas more than developing a system of thought. His smaller books like the ones about 9/11 and Iraq tend to be mixtures of smaller lectures and articles padded out with a little extra introduction. For me his best works are his larger volumes:
The Ticklish Subject
The Parallax View
In defence of Lost causes
Although if your into Lacan/Cultural Theory then Enjoy your symptom is pretty entertaining. And perverts guide to cinema is awesome.
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