I've just reread the intro to the 'Virtue and Terror' book..... Zizek quotes with apparent approval Foucault's infatuated witterings on the Iranian Revolution, and ends up by comparing Robespierre with the purity of drive of Muslim Fundamentalists - which is A) madness (and it's hard to think of anything more opposed in both ends and means to the values of the Enlightenment), and B)the BBC will LOVE as 'soooo controversial and relevant to, like, the issues of NOW. As Zizek also seems to think it's Fascist/Far Right when European countries like France do stuff like ban religion / headscarves in schools (rather than seeing it as Enlightenment values in action, allowing a child at least some hours in the day when it is not being indoctrinated into superstition or forced to conform to the dress codes of dark-age patriarchy!) I'm thinking this could be car crash TV. As the old line has it, with friends like that, who needs enemeies?
Ok, I may be misjudging him on the basis of a short and extraordinarily foggy essay, but if it's true that he hates post-modernists for their lack of beliefs/values, I found it difficult to discern any of Zizek's own.
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Date: 2009-06-06 08:20 am (UTC)Ok, I may be misjudging him on the basis of a short and extraordinarily foggy essay, but if it's true that he hates post-modernists for their lack of beliefs/values, I found it difficult to discern any of Zizek's own.