The former, the "Elvis Presley of cultural theory," and the latter, of whom was once written, "God is dead, but my hair is perfect," engaged in a discussion about the left recently at the New York Public Library. Zizek, a Slovenian philosopher, argues from a more traditional Marxist perspective. BHL, as he is known in France, is more of a liberal internationalist. His denunciation of Marxism in the 1970s occasioned the founding of the Nouvelle Philosophie and the rightward drift of many French intellectuals.
If only discussions like this one were broadcast on television!
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Yes, if only we could supplant Hannity and Combs with "Are you smarter than a Continental Sophist" or "Real Parisian Housewives: Fashionistas of the French Salon".
I suggest a compromise in the style of celebrity death match in which Glenn Beck beats Julia Kristeva to death with a rubber phallus. Or how about a show where dog the bounty hunter and Wolf from American Gladiator release Lacan into the wild and hunt him ala the "most dangerous game".
MV
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