03796oam 2200649K 450 991078787400332120190503073418.00-262-32155-60-262-32154-8(CKB)2670000000544892(SSID)ssj0001135035(PQKBManifestationID)11608255(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001135035(PQKBWorkID)11096729(PQKB)11529972(MiAaPQ)EBC3339752(OCoLC)872114946(MdBmJHUP)muse33159(OCoLC)872114946(OCoLC)961667214(OCoLC)962726830(OCoLC-P)872114946(MaCbMITP)9974(Au-PeEL)EBL3339752(CaPaEBR)ebr10841925(OCoLC)939263842(EXLCZ)99267000000054489220140310d2013 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrŽižek's jokes (did you hear the one about Hegel and negation?) /by Slavoj Žižek ; edited by Audun Mortensen ; afterword by MomusCambridge, Mass. :MIT Press,2013.1 online resource (162 pages)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-262-02671-6 Includes bibliographical references.Zizek as comedian: jokes in the service of philosophy."A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."--Ludwig WittgensteinThe 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 Zizek's Jokes contains every joke cited, paraphrased, or narrated in Zizek's work in English (including some in unpublished manuscripts), including different versions of the same joke that make different points in different contexts.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.Wit and humorPhilosophyWit and humorPsychological aspectsPhilosophyHumorJokingPsychological aspectsPHILOSOPHY/GeneralCULTURAL STUDIES/Critical TheoryWit and humorPhilosophy.Wit and humorPsychological aspects.PhilosophyJokingPsychological aspects.808.87Žižek Slavoj171480Mortensen Audun1582167OCoLC-POCoLC-PBOOK9910787874003321Žižek's jokes3864283UNINA