> > >Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 20:24:57 -0400
> > >Subject: FW: Zizek help
> > >From: Gary Ashwill <gna at duke.edu>
>
> > >What I would like to know, is it fair to characterize Zizek as
> post-Marxist?
>He seems to be synthesizing Marx and Freud when he discusses fetishism.
>
>That would probably be fair, but it would be important to qualify the way
>in which he draws on many of Marx's key insights and re-reads /
>re-fashions them using Lacanian concepts like objet petit a, fetishism,
>and so on, kind of like new wineskins for a rich old wine. Castoriadis has
>also been refered to as a post-Marxist... and Zizek and the Slovene School
>are writing with similar interests.
>
>howdee,
>ken
>
>kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca