Introducing Slavoj Zizek: A Graphic Guide

A quick and dirty guide to the essential concepts. I liked the book for doing what it set out to do. . . which is be a simplified introduction to a modern philosopher / culture critic

Pros: Good overview and key concerns and ideas. Zizek's foreground-espoused atheism, at least according to this introduction's implications, is circumstantial happenstance that neatly conforms to his Communist idealism and his postmodern liberational politics...because he "authentically desires it to", possibly because he identifies politically with the "transgressions" of the "pervert" that lives on the margins of the "big Other's" dominating collective pro-capitalist discourse. That said, it's an expectedly ethical atheism informed by the promise of Marxist critique. I don't find it necessary to his ideas, however, and so I do think there is room for people of informed faith to read Zizek, if only for reference. This book might well be such a digestible introduction. Cons: I find gaping holes in any critique of Zizek's frequent disavowal of influences. Instead, we find him saying that such and such thinker in the past agrees with him... O_o And the authors of this book say not one word about that. Mmmkay.

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Important as an introduction to this thinker, and Christopher does a nice job of presenting the work in an easy format.

This was my second Ziziek book after reading the Desert of the Real. Both were intense but worth the investment.

the go to book for wanting to read Zizek without any effort.

This is a good introductory text to the work of Žižek. Žižek’s work can be extraordinarily dense and difficult to digest but this text does a nice job providing readers with a (very) surface view of his major concepts and contributions to philosophy. I would recommend this text, coupled with Kelsey Wood’s Readers Guide, as a good starting point to engage his work. I have spent the past few years immersed in Žižek’s work as the foundation for my dissertation and still found this book to be thoroughly enjoyable and worth the read.

Slavoj Zizek is a highly important thinker to understanding modern Marxist though and implicated of Freud and Lacan in modern culture. This book provides an easy-to-understand way way of thinking about his different modes of thought introduces throughout Zizek's books. The graphic novel side of this book isn't great, but it's a fun way to read about Zizek.