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How Slavoj Became Zizek Eliran Bar-El Revised edition

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How Slavoj Became Zizek

Eliran Bar-El

Revised edition

An engrossing account of the meteoric rise of contemporary philosophy’s most contentious and prolific intellectual. This revised edition corrects several erroneous and insufficient references in the first edition of this book. 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 small Eastern European country come to such popular notoriety? In How Slavoj Became Žižek, sociologist Eliran Bar-El plumbs the emergence, popularization, and development of the 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 political candidate to eventual intellectual celebrity, as Žižek perfected 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 has harnessed the power of the digital era in his own self-fashioning as a public intellectual.

272 pages, 20 halftones

Medios de comunicación	Libros Hardcover Book (Libro con lomo y cubierta duros)
Publicado	6 de mayo de 2025
ISBN13	9780226840277
Editores	The University of Chicago Press
Páginas	264
Dimensiones	152 × 229 × 20 mm · 513 g