tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18173351.post405500365319125152..comments2023-11-11T21:26:46.689+00:00Comments on This Side of Sunday: Zizek, Tolerance & the 'Decaffeinated Other'Jon Couttshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01728055140831842717noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18173351.post-85741934995785450342010-11-14T17:30:55.527+00:002010-11-14T17:30:55.527+00:00yeah you may be right. I didn't really realize...yeah you may be right. I didn't really realize he was a Marxist the first book I read of his, so maybe that is why I don't always think of him that way. maybe if I went back and read it again I'd see it on every page.Jon Couttshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01728055140831842717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18173351.post-91237193757949998522010-11-14T15:07:41.342+00:002010-11-14T15:07:41.342+00:00Hmmm, I certainly would not claim to be an expert ...Hmmm, I certainly would not claim to be an expert on Zizek. I mostly know him through other critics. But, as far as I can see Marxism is the hard kernel at the centre of all of his thought. Certainly some of his major influences (e.g. Adorno) are Marxists, though of a particular variety. It's not that everything Zizek says is about Marxism, but I think it's probably fair to say that you need to know he's a Marxist in the same way that you need to know that Jon Coutts is a Christian, in order to properly access his thought.Colin Toffelmirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13857934895856384717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18173351.post-51471721941278704412010-11-14T08:37:30.159+00:002010-11-14T08:37:30.159+00:00Yes yes. Zizek fascinates me. I think his Marxism ...Yes yes. Zizek fascinates me. I think his Marxism enables him to expose our non-Marxist presuppositions, of which there are many. Even if I don't want to go with him the whole way, I am inclined to listen carefully. He is more than a Marxist though. In my cursory knowledge of him I feel like he has a hodge podge of great points to make and questions to make, and I'm not sure one could necessarily say that Marxism is at the center of that. Maybe it is. Regardless, he says some incredible stuff.Jon Couttshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01728055140831842717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18173351.post-69611049118285983542010-11-14T03:19:30.478+00:002010-11-14T03:19:30.478+00:00Ya, say what you like about radical materialists a...Ya, say what you like about radical materialists and atheists, but I do respect the fact that they also see the idea of a perpetual state of truce, where nobody is allowed to offend anybody else, as a nightmare and not a dream.<br /><br />A lot of people (Christians especially) deride and dismiss Marxist thinkers, but one of the most brilliant components of Zizek's critique here is that the machine of capitalism requires this flacid "otherness" because without it we would be forced to, as he notes, realize that our differences are frequently deep, political, and meaningful. Things worth fighting over, in other words.Colin Toffelmirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13857934895856384717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18173351.post-1592658690062403242010-11-14T00:27:14.904+00:002010-11-14T00:27:14.904+00:00Affirmative.Affirmative.Kampenhttp://ortusmemoria.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com