[lbo-talk] Fredric Jameson on Zizek

John Norem jnorem at cox.net
Sun Sep 3 07:41:32 PDT 2006


First Impressions

Fredric Jameson

/The Parallax View/ by Slavoj Zizek · MIT, 434 pp, £16.95

As every schoolchild knows by now, a new book by Zizek is supposed to include, in no special order, discussions of Hegel, Marx and Kant; various pre- and post-socialist anecdotes and reflections; notes on Kafka as well as on mass-cultural writers like Stephen King or Patricia Highsmith; references to opera (Wagner, Mozart); jokes from the Marx Brothers; outbursts of obscenity, scatological as well as sexual; interventions in the history of philosophy, from Spinoza and Kierkegaard to Kripke and Dennett; analyses of Hitchcock films and other Hollywood products; references to current events; disquisitions on obscure points of Lacanian doctrine; polemics with various contemporary theorists (Derrida, Deleuze); comparative theology; and, most recently, reports on cognitive philosophy and neuroscientific ‘advances’...

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n17/jame02_.html



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