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Grocery Shopping with Zizek
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The Stranger
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September 4, 2008
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Grocery Shopping with Zizek
The World's Most Popular Philosopher [hearts] Junk
Slavoj Zizek is the most popular philosopher of our day. In his work, we primarily find the influence of Jacques Lacan, Karl Marx, and Georg Hegel. We also find many references to the filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock and the writer Gilbert Chesterton. We also find that almost nothing on earth is alien to his mind. Everything can be grasped and processed by his muscular theory machine.
Zizek looks like a bear.
The philosopher was born in what was then (1949) a part of a strange complex called Yugoslavia, and is now a simple and small country called Slovenia. Because his country was once committed to realizing on earth a ...
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