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Zizek's Jokes - 9780262026710

Un libro in lingua di Slavoj Zizek Mortensen Audun (EDT) (AFT) Momus edito da Mit Pr, 2014

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"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely ofjokes." -- Ludwig Wittgenstein

The good news is that this book offers anentertaining but enlightening compilation of ?i?ekisms. Unlike any other book by Slavoj?i?ek, this compact arrangement of jokes culled from his writings provides an index tocertain philosophical, political, and sexual themes that preoccupy him. ?i?ek'sJokes contains the set-ups and punch lines -- as well as the offenses and insults -- that?i?ek is famous for, all in less than 200 pages. So what's the bad news? There is no badnews. There's just the inimitable Slavoj ?i?ek, disguised as an impossibly erudite,politically incorrect uncle, beginning a sentence, "There is an old Jewish joke, loved byDerrida..." For ?i?ek, jokes are amusing stories that offer a shortcut tophilosophical insight. He illustrates the logic of the Hegelian triad, for example, with threevariations of the "Not tonight, dear, I have a headache" classic: first the wife claims amigraine; then the husband does; then the wife exclaims, "Darling, I have a terrible migraine,so let's have some sex to refresh me!" A punch line about a beer bottle provides a Lacanianlesson about one signifier. And a "truly obscene" version of the famous"aristocrats" joke has the family offering a short course in Hegelian thought rather thana display of unspeakables. ?i?ek's Jokes contains every joke cited,paraphrased, or narrated in ?i?ek's work in English (including some in unpublishedmanuscripts), including different versions of the same joke that make different points in differentcontexts. The larger point being that comedy is central to ?i?ek's seriousness.

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