Sunday, January 23, 2005
(5:31 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
Discussion of Zizek
Jodi Dean has a lengthy Zizek post in which she provides a summary of his work on totalitarianism and democracy, especially in Sublime Object, For they know not what they do, and The Ticklish Subject. Not only is it the best strictly blogological discussion of Zizek I have yet seen, but it also addresses an issue that has been hovering the back of my mind for a while now: what is the role of the Party for Zizek? Is his late invocation of Paul simply a way to bring back party politics, or is it a mutation in the idea of the Party? (His commendation of the fundamentalist Southern Baptist's position that "there will be a lot of good people in hell" could very easily be taken in a Stalinist sense -- one might ask if the shift from Lenin to Stalin is parallel to the shift from the revolutionary import of early Christianity [uncovered by liberationist readings] to the established early catholic church.)Incidentally, her blog is joining the blogroll.
