Fear of the Martians: On Slavoj Žižek's Uses of Argument.
This article offers a critical examination of the arguments that underpin Slavoj Žižek's political utopianism. It maintains (1) that Žižek's rejection of liberal democracy and market capitalism is sustained by highly problematical rhetorical strategies and (2) that his purportedly Marxist plea for a...
| Publicado en: | Paragraph Vol. 38; no. 3; pp. 347 - 369 |
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Edinburgh University Press
Nov2015
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| Sumario: | This article offers a critical examination of the arguments that underpin Slavoj Žižek's political utopianism. It maintains (1) that Žižek's rejection of liberal democracy and market capitalism is sustained by highly problematical rhetorical strategies and (2) that his purportedly Marxist plea for a new social order is based on an essentially Romantic, more specifically Nietzschean, conception of modern man's existential predicament. |
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