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chiefmors t1_jayera6 wrote

I find it telling that the author just decides Žižek has 'lost the plot' on the grounds of a single essay he wrote because it doesn't agree with her politics.

I hardly agree with anything Žižek writes, but in that freeing situation I also wouldn't decide to cut him off or denigrate his intellect just because in one area of debate he goes the other direction than I do.

This just seems like so much virtue signaling and not actual philosophy. Sure, I think anybody in the Marxist camp has 'lost the plot' but it's pointless and lazy to spend time trying to cast them as defunct relics and much more interesting to read, engage, and debate their ideas without implying they belong in the dustbin for the audacity of not agreeing with me.

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elimial OP t1_jayoiuu wrote

> I find it telling that the author just decides Žižek has 'lost the plot' on the grounds of a single essay he wrote because it doesn't agree with her politics.

I didn't get that from her article. Specifically she found it to be "boring, unoriginal, dishonest, and lazy." The argument that Žižek is making seems lost in the piece, or at least not well laid out. This may be his style in general, and maybe there is some hidden insight somewhere. But it seems mostly akin to McWhorter's work that he sights. Unoriginal at best, harmful at worst.

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InTheEndEntropyWins t1_jazn0bg wrote

>Specifically she found it to be "boring, unoriginal, dishonest, and lazy."

That's just name calling, not actually engaging with his arguments.

The whole article just felt like someone who got angry and emotional and hence just nit picked, and used name calling as a response rather than rationally engaging with what Zizek said.

Also the term transphobic is just going to lose all meaning with the way it's just thrown about so loosely without good reason.

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