/lit/ - Literature

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjnlvlMa84Y&feature=youtu.be&t=767

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Why is he sweating, /lit/?

>>6849221
God had to have had a moment of atheism to have truly died on the Cross. This is the perverse core of christianity

Slavoj Zizek has been outed as a plagiarist.

http://www.newsweek.com/did-marxist-philosophy-superstar-slavoj-zizek-plagiarize-white-nationalist-journal-258433

What does this mean for investigators of Zizek's theory? This scandal is another episode in which Zizek has flouted the standards of the traditional Western academy. There is no doubt that he will lose face among this community.

Many commentators have speculated that this is the last straw for Zizek; that we may forget about him now, as we probably always should have. A closer look reveals what the real import of this plagiarism is vis-a-vis our understanding of Zizek.

The passage in question was a rightist's summary of a rightist book. Zizek made some minor alterations to it to make it a crude approximation of his general voice, and followed it with a few lines of original writing. In this bit, he rejects the premises of the book - but only through the mediating proxy of another reviewer. My suspicion is that Zizek never read the book, and cribbed a rightist's critique of it to save himself the trouble. If this is true, this would mean that Zizek did not read the entire argument of the book, which would make us slow to accept Zizek's descriptions of the authors he uses as theoretical punching bags. He develops his own theory at the expense of his understanding of others'.

I think there is reason to temper our disdain for Zizek's error here. After all, Hegel wrote some pretty grave misrepresentations of his subjects, too; he wrote once that, in Orthodox Christianity, grace proceeded from the father and the son, when in reality it only proceeds from the father. I think you would be hard-pressed to find a writer that never makes mistakes, consciously or not.

I don't write this to paint Zizek as one who is beyond blame, but to caution some of his more strident critics against committing the same error as him: to hastily dismiss one's opponents to prove a point rather than to judging for oneself what they are really saying.

>>4613612

Why do so many "intellectuals" still constantly talk about Freudian psychoanalysis when we now know that Freud was full of shit?

>>4257248
>implying *snort* I'm not *sniff* right despite my *shirt-tug* foibles
>my gott

What does /lit/ think about this sweaty guy?

"Zish ish now ideology funksuns."

>I’m a nervous guy. I find it absolutely unbearable to see myself on a screen. And when people write about me, I never read it — unless there is a brutal attack and my friends think I should answer it. I have a sense of shame here. I am afraid of seeing myself.

>You know, in my private life I am an extremely depressed guy. Look where I am now! Look around. I’m in Paris.

>[Žižek lifts his laptop, turning it to reveal his surroundings: a sparse hotel room, with simple bedding and a single window.]

>You see? I’m in a small hotel room. I escaped my home for a week; I needed it. Here, I go out just once or twice a day to eat. Except for you, and another friend with whom I Skype, I haven’t spoken to a living person for a week. And I like it so much!


http://www.salon.com/2012/12/29/slavoj_zizek_i_am_not_the_worlds_hippest_philosopher/