An engrossing account of the meteoric rise of contemporary philosophy’s most contentious and prolific intellectual.
Slovenian philosopher bad boy Slavoj Žižek is one of the most famous intellectuals of our time, publishing at a breakneck speed and lecturing around the world. With his unmistakable speaking style and set of mannerisms that have made him ripe material for internet humor and meme culture, he is recognizable to a wide spectrum of fans and detractors. But how did an intellectual from a remote Eastern European country come to such popular notoriety? In How Slavoj BecameŽižek, sociologist Eliran Bar-El plumbs the emergence, popularization, and development of this phenomenon called “Žižek.”
Beginning with Žižek’s early years as a thinker and political figure in Slovenian civil society, Bar-El traces Žižek’s rise from Marxist philosopher to a political candidate to eventual intellectual celebrity as Žižek perfects his unique performative style and a rhetorical arsenal of “Hegelacanese.” Following 9/11, Žižek’s career as a global op-ed writer and TV commentator married his rhetoric with global events such as the War on Terror, the financial crisis of 2008, and the Arab Spring of 2011. Yet, at the same time, this mainstream popularity, as well as a series of politically incorrect views, almost entirely estranged the Slovenian from the normal workings of academia. Ultimately, this account shows how Žižek harnessed the power of the digital era in his own self-fashioning as a public intellectual.
1 有用 纪恩同学 2024-01-09 10:31:54 江苏
写得还蛮中规中矩的,没有想象中劲爆。成功的经验总结来说还是趁时代的热点、傍大佬和持续不断的营业。
28 有用 Walt 2023-02-26 00:59:35 福建
本来只想速通,没想到意外地好看就看完了。全书材料无比翔实,行文偶有灼见,核心观点异常简单:1、时势造就了他;2、而他慧眼识别出了时势并有意识地用自己制造短路("superpositioning")的能力来放大优势;3、其代价是受到"media-academia trade-off"的影响,令他更容易招致业内人士的批评,从而得出结论:4、他的“自毁”姿态令他成为了数字时代的苏格拉底。作者划分了大致四... 本来只想速通,没想到意外地好看就看完了。全书材料无比翔实,行文偶有灼见,核心观点异常简单:1、时势造就了他;2、而他慧眼识别出了时势并有意识地用自己制造短路("superpositioning")的能力来放大优势;3、其代价是受到"media-academia trade-off"的影响,令他更容易招致业内人士的批评,从而得出结论:4、他的“自毁”姿态令他成为了数字时代的苏格拉底。作者划分了大致四个时间段来重构他的个人经历,读到了不少有趣的八卦(想省时间可以翻翻我在条目中的笔记),第一章尤其精彩。这本书最大的问题是对研究对象过于同情,想用"media-academia trade-off"来解释所有来自学院对齐泽克的批评,我认为太夸张了,况且他本人也从未放弃真理的维度。 (展开)
0 有用 达伦终结者 2023-11-27 23:09:56 美国
文献部分好,很有帮助
4 有用 水牛之王神乃襞 2023-06-09 18:51:18 日本
如果superposition意味着费希特式的双重无化的“统一”,那么齐泽克那里则完全缺乏这种精深和微妙感,而更多的是炖炒缝堆
0 有用 R 2023-12-28 01:51:05 美国
盒打击
0 有用 right choice 2024-06-01 11:18:22 四川
历史考察,喜欢哲学理论的不建议看
0 有用 Ιάννης Ξενάκης 2024-05-10 00:52:50 广东
凑合
1 有用 纪恩同学 2024-01-09 10:31:54 江苏
写得还蛮中规中矩的,没有想象中劲爆。成功的经验总结来说还是趁时代的热点、傍大佬和持续不断的营业。
0 有用 R 2023-12-28 01:51:05 美国
盒打击
0 有用 达伦终结者 2023-11-27 23:09:56 美国
文献部分好,很有帮助