[lbo-talk] RE: Why Zizek...

[joanna bujes]

Woj writes:
"What I do not like about Zizek has not as much to do with the man
himself, as with his position in society.  He is essentially a jester in
the court of literary bourgeoisie, an entertainer writing amusing
stories about and for the wealthy US literati.  Not that his
observations and stories are inaccurate, but they are more flirtatious
and teasing than critical and challenging."

I could forgive him all were it not for the fact that he has a sinecure for life and has no need to twitter for his supper. Otherwise, for all his theory and philosophizing, he strikes me as just another east european intellectual ingratiating himself with the West as the enfant terrible of the day. 

Joanna