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Äi×ek's Jokes

Äi×ek's Jokes

Äi×ek's Jokes
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by Slavoj Zizek; Audun Mortensen (Editor); Afterword by Momus

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  • Title Äi×ek's Jokes
  • Author Slavoj Zizek; Audun Mortensen (Editor); Afterword by Momus
  • Binding Papeback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 162
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher MIT Press
  • Publication date pp. 168
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 6375650768
  • ISBN 9780262535304 / 0262535300
  • Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.4 x 5 x 0.4 in (18.80 x 12.70 x 1.02 cm)
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Category Philosophy
  • Library of Congress subjects Philosophy, Wit and humor - Philosophy
  • Dewey Decimal Code 808.87
  • Quantity available 4

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From the publisher

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.

About the author

Slavoj Zizek, a philosopher and cultural critic, is Senior Researcher in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University, and International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London. He is the author of more than thirty books, including Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture, The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity, The Parallax View, The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic (with John Milbank), and Zizek's Jokes (Did you hear the one about Hegel and negation?), these five published by the MIT Press.

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