>I really don't know what we're arguing about here. My point was that
>Zizek is well-known in the anglophone world because he writes about
>things that interest anglophones
He's been translated into 20 languages. He's a public intellectual well-known in Slovenia and around the world. :You speak as if he's some outlier.
>If he wrote books about ancient Slovenian history or the impact of
>EU membership on the Slovene energy grid.....nobody outside of
>Slovenia except a very small handful of Slovenian-speaking
>specialists in Eastern Europe would have ever heard of him. That was
>my sole point
Not a very interesting one then.
Zizek is well known because he worked at being well known, just like Foucault. That's what public intellectuals do.