>The only way to actually know what Slovene academics are talking 
>about would be to learn Slovenian, which I am not going to do.
Yeah. That's why hardly anyone in the U.S. knows anything about what academics in France or Germany are doing. They don't know French or German.
>Unless Slovenia is some kind of exception to the general rule, its 
>intellectuals are likely to be most concerned with things that 
>effect Slovenes, such as Slovene history, the meaning of the EU for 
>Slovenia, the legacy of communism and the break-up of Yugoslavia, etc.
Precisely the things that NSK was/is concerned with.
>I am not attacking Zizek here. I rather like him, but he's not a 
>standard Eastern European academic, which was my original point.
But you're just guessing, which is my point.