![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His approach-the cause of all the criticism-is often obscure, because he professes no single theory, and he often contradicts himself. Most importantly for our purposes, however, Žižek uses psychoanalytic theory to analyze films and apply their meanings within an anti-capitalist framework. He ran for president of Slovenia in 1991, and a triumphal portrait of Stalin hangs in the anteroom of his apartment in Ljubljana. Here are some facts about Žižek: he is a film critic, he has written 75 books, and he is a communist. After hearing Žižek speak at Tufts on November 8th, I began to think that this hilarious yet deadly serious man deserves our attention-not because of the strength of his hyperbolic, contrarian arguments, but because he encourages the kind of lust for rebellion that our sense of postmodern irony tends to deride. Noam Chomsky has called Žižek’s dialectical style “theoretical posturing which has no content.” The New Republic has called him “the most despicable philosopher in the West.” Yet these attacks on Žižek only seem to increase his influence he is now one of the most influential public intellectuals in the world. In the eyes of some critics, Slavoj Žižek’s freewheeling iconoclasm makes him a dangerous cult leader. ![]()
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