A Theatre of Shadows: Saving, Critiquing, Psychoanalyzing Žižek

Robert Kilroy

A Theatre of Shadows: Saving, Critiquing, Psychoanalyzing Žižek

Robert Kilroy

Abstract

In recent years, criticism of Slavoj Žižek has intensified at a frantic pace, to the extent that he has all but been erased from the public sphere. Alongside his exclusion from dominant media-platforms such as The Guardian and the The New York Times, the denunciation of his work by the academic community has reached an excessive level, with thinkers such as Noam Chomsky seeking to undermine the empirical validity of his thought in a surprisingly personalized manner

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