The Phenomenal Slavoj Zizek

Terry Eagleton has just written a quasi-humorous book review of Zizek’s In Defense of Lost Causes for the Times Literary Supplement. It accomplishes its task in making Zizek seem like a psychopath. This, I thought, was a great remark:

[Zizek] was, he tells us, tempted to suggest for the dust jacket of one of his books: “In his free time, Žižek likes to surf the internet for child pornography and teach his small son how to pull the legs off spiders”.

For a decent summary of Zizek’s overall project and a few good jokes, I suggest reading this in its entirety. (Via The Weblog.)