How is he perceived in academia? Is he only a meme? Are his books worthy of reading?

How is he perceived in academia? Is he only a meme? Are his books worthy of reading?

MEME MAN

Well, since academia is a meme too, I think he might be appreciated.

We are living in the age of MEME.

Not really taught to undergrads unless they're doing theory or a prof thinks an example of a Zizek youtube clip adds to the particular lecture.

I assume grad students studying Hegel or Marx would be dealing with him pretty directly.

I think many profs haven't fully gone back from Heidegger-Derrida to Hegel, at least not in the dogmatist sense Zizek wants.

Uni Uppsala here. Known to all but discussed by none. Then again, I'm not at the Department of Philosophy.

hes a crack addict leftist fascist desu

He has so many great points, and truly enlightened philosophies that transcend the norm. He makes you look at the world from a unique perspective that makes you think he might have grasped "it", how much can be grasped by our minds in fleeting moments when our logic exceeds our consciousness. Then, just when you begin to grin, he starts on some idiotic cringe worthy rant against capitolism and you raise he's just another leftist intellectual idiot unable to grasp the simplest of economics, which is much more practical than "ideology". So, fuck him, for having the ability to use logic, but not reason.

American Liberal Arts school, Professors are interested in him as a personality, film profs love him, cultural profs don't really buy into anything he says.

Students are unaware of who he is. Only 2-3 other people probably know who he is.

why don't you just
read zizek