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What's the stuff I should have read before I dive into Zizeks work?

Also where do you begin? He wrote like a million books.

>> No.4210484

Just do some lines of coke.

No books are really necessary before Žiž.

>> No.4210482

You don't.

>> No.4210486

don't, lol

>> No.4210515
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>>4210486
>>4210484
>>4210482

Now don't be like that /lit/.
You always get your dicks wet over this guy now give me some input.

>> No.4210517

Zizek's books are like stage props for his zany character act. Why the fuck would you read them?

>> No.4210525

>>4210515
a vocal portion of /lit/ doesn't like zizek because he has to audacity to be fairly well known.

>> No.4210543

Hegel, Lacan, Kant, Marx

You don't necessarily have to read their stuff, but have a decent understanding of their major ideas.

>> No.4210564

just read them in order of release, he explains the authors he references quite well

>> No.4211020

>>4210543
>Marx
Don't you mean Althusser?

>> No.4211055

Start with The Sublime Object of Ideology

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>>4210517

Why the fuck would you not want to know the thoughts of pretty much the only philosopher who has any effect on public opinion these days? It's not that hard to imagine.

>> No.4211096

In order to read Zizek read State and Revolution while madturbating to trap cat girls. Then read some Kristeva.

>> No.4211139

Jumping off this, besides Zizek is there any living philosopher worth looking at? All I can think of at the moment is Kripke but he just seems to play around with Wittgenstein's language games.

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>>4211139

Philosophy as a matter of public interest has really gone off the radar. I try to keep up with the times and Zizek is the only visible philosopher out there. Where the fuck are they all hiding now?

>> No.4211178

>>4211077
the public deserves him

>> No.4211183

>>4211139
read more quine. also learn about modal logic. scrub.

>> No.4211188

>>4211183
I actually picked up From a Logical Point of View yesterday. How imperative is it that I know formal logic? I have no background in it (yet). I want to take a class on it hopefully next semester.

>> No.4211211

>I actually picked up From a Logical Point of View yesterday. How imperative is it that I know formal logic?
not very, if you're reading kripke. some of quine's stuff can get just a little technical, but kripke is more metaphysics than straight-up logic. but yeah he basically built a semantics for modal logic.

>> No.4211217

>>4211211
Cool I can handle that then. Thanks!

>> No.4211246

>>4211055
This is probably the best place to start on his theoretical work. If you're not up to the challenge and just want to read his more popular work, I'd recommend First as Tragedy, Then as Farce or maybe Living in the End Times.

Really, though, you should go to Sublime Object of Ideology first if you can.

>> No.4211254

>>4211217
putnam is cool too

>> No.4211485

>considering zizek as a serious reading

lel