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Zizek's Jokes - (Did you hear the one about Hegel and negation?) (Paperback)
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Zizek's Jokes - (Did you hear the one about Hegel and negation?) (Paperback)
Series: Zizek's Jokes
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Zizek as comedian: jokes in the service of philosophy. "A serious
and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of
jokes."-Ludwig Wittgenstein The good news is that this book offers
an entertaining but enlightening compilation of Zizekisms. Unlike
any other book by Slavoj Zizek, this compact arrangement of jokes
culled from his writings provides an index to certain
philosophical, political, and sexual themes that preoccupy him.
Zizek's Jokes contains the set-ups and punch lines-as well as the
offenses and insults-that Zizek is famous for, all in less than 200
pages. So what's the bad news? There is no bad news. There's just
the inimitable Slavoj Zizek, disguised as an impossibly erudite,
politically incorrect uncle, beginning a sentence, "There is an old
Jewish joke, loved by Derrida..." For Zizek, jokes are amusing
stories that offer a shortcut to philosophical insight. He
illustrates the logic of the Hegelian triad, for example, with
three variations of the "Not tonight, dear, I have a headache"
classic: first the wife claims a migraine; 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 Lacanian lesson about one signifier. And a "truly
obscene" version of the famous "aristocrats" joke has the family
offering a short course in Hegelian thought rather than a display
of unspeakables. Zizek's Jokes contains every joke cited,
paraphrased, or narrated in Zizek's work in English (including some
in unpublished manuscripts), including different versions of the
same joke that make different points in different contexts. The
larger point being that comedy is central to Zizek's seriousness.
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