Žižek's Jokes

Did you hear the one about Hegel and negation?

Slavoj Žižek, Audun Mortensen, Momus

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English

Massachusetts Inst of Tec
23 February 2018

Philosophy; Popular beliefs & controversial knowledge

Series: Žižek's Jokes

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 Zizek's Jokes contains every joke cited, paraphrased, or narrated in Zizek's work in English (including some in unpublished manuscripts), including different versions of the same joke that make different points in different contexts.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.

By: Slavoj Žižek
Afterword by: Momus
Edited by: Audun Mortensen
Imprint: Massachusetts Inst of Tec
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 191mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 11mm
ISBN: 9780262535304
ISBN 10: 0262535300
Series: Žižek's Jokes
Pages: 168
Publication Date: 23 February 2018
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Slavoj Zizek is a philosopher and cultural critic. 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, and (with John Milbank) The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialect, these four published by the MIT Press.