/lit/ - Literature

>>10241035
Only if you're prepared to not be a christian after

>>10241035
Yes.

>>10241035
If your intelligent his writings will not impact your life at all.

>I'm a christian

>Should I read relevant or modern authors who have different philosophical beliefs?
Why is this even a question?

>>10241035
If you are avoiding things because christianity you shouldn't call yourself christian. Gather some courage and convinction and then reevaluate your beliefs.

You should read the sublime object of ideology in any case if only for the way he explains his ideas. He firstly states his idea and then trough metafor simultanously developes and explains it. Even if you are not familiar with the thinkers he builds upon, reading a chapter twice allows you to understand what he is talking about.

>>10241035
Nah, you should keep reading semitic fanfiction.

I'm a Fascist should I read Zizek?

>>10241114
>metafor

>>10241150
yep

he wrote smth about c.s.lewis and chesterton

check it

>>10241161
It was late and my language is mostly phonetic

>>10241150
He is a fascist too

>>10241035
His work on Christianity is called The Puppet and the Dwarf. If you are easily offended I wouldn't recommend it, but if you can get past Zizek's unfiltered satire he has a lot of interesting ideas. He's called himself a Christian Atheist before, and basically proposes that the New Testament should be read as an atheist text.

>>10242542
He also has a book with John Millibank, the Monstrosity of Christ, in which he argues for christianism being the inauguration of atheism, which I quite liked (though I'll admit I kinda dropped Millibank's response 3/4s in and only read his rejoinder.

If you repeat enough times that a man is an intellectual, he will become one in the public eye

Zizek hides his theoretical power level these days. Read The Paralax View and uncuck yourself.

>>10241067
This desu.

>>10242606
>>10241067
>If your intelligent
Why are you even here, you two?

psued

>>10242568
Thanks for pointing out the most obvious flaw of democracy, that the masses will believe anything they hear and shouldn't be trusted in deciding on anything.

>>10244590
why you hate democrasy. are you the leftist or the nazi?

>>10244601
Not the person you replied to, but do you really think democracy has no flaws? Have you never read the Apology?

"Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time" - Churchill (for once)

>>10244601
Neither, anon. I'm just stating a fact, people are retarded and can't decide on anything properly. A corrupt media or a smooth talker will always be able to sway the masses. What happens when A.I. is able to predict what the masses want to hear? The day that happens will be the final nail in the coffin. The word of a politician will be even less trustworthy, they will always know what to say.

>>10241035

dunno ya wanna go ahead

>>10244607
>>10244608
what to do?

>>10244620
Run and hide! Live in the woods or on a sailboat.

>>10244626
this is not a fucking option

>>10244620
It's worked this far, just don't worry about it desu
also unironically this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXVEnxtZe_w

>>10244640
>It's worked this far
(Assuming you're a burger like me)
How so? Our country is bankrupt, constantly at war, no manufacturing jobs, crippling debt for students, shitty healthcare, social security will be gone soon, country is divided on frivolous splinter issues, high divorce rate, opiate epidemic, worlds largest incarceration rate, racism on all sides, mindless consumerism. America is going to explode. It's like saying "Oh, yeah, the car sprays oil and smokes, but it worked thus far." The car is fucked, anon.

>>10241035
Read Gustavo Bueno. It's the best philosophy you can take if you want to survive reality.

>>10244659
not murican

Zizek is left wing peterson

Anybody else going to Pittsburgh, NYU, or Cambridge to see Zizek speak this coming week?

>>10244590
I don't trust the government either though.
So what the fuck do I do?

Zizek is yet anoher meme fuck for the faggot pseuds on /lit/ to fawn over becauseread him being talked about in a middlebrow newspaper.

>>10241035
If you practice a flavour of Christianity that is still grounded in a metaphysic, like Orthodoxy, Coptic or Trad Catholicism you probably won't get a whole lot from his writings. If you're some sort of Western heretic you may be swayed by his insights.

>>10241035
Read it, then read more. A faith untested is a faith untrue. Only then can you see . . .

>>10241035
yeah

>>10245920
lold

>>10241035
No and it has nothing to do with you being a christian, ŽiŽek is just a waste of your time.

>>10247337
his thoughts about fundamentalism seem to me very interesting

>>10247356
DUDE fundamentalims BRO

>>10244897
CUTE!!!

>>10247423
want more?

>>10241035
He's hack.

>>10245896
Im going to the one at carnegie

>>10241035
>only reading authors who will reinforce or be compatible with your current beliefs

Is there anything more pleb?

>>10248981
>Is there anything more pleb?
Reading Zizek.