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Clown Prince of the Revolution. On Slavoj Žižek, a new kind of leftist thinker
[El principe payaso de la revolución. Sobre Slavoj Žižek, un nuevo tipo de pensador de la izquierda]

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  • Roger Scruton

    (University of Oxford)

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A few decades ago a new kind of leftist thinker has emerged —one who clothes his revolutionary zeal in a layer of irony, half-dismissing his own impractical idealism as though speaking through the face paint of a clown. Under this framework, this article analyzes and evaluates the phenomenon of pop-psychoanalytic Stalinism by Slavoj Žižek.

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  • Roger Scruton, 2016. "Clown Prince of the Revolution. On Slavoj Žižek, a new kind of leftist thinker [El principe payaso de la revolución. Sobre Slavoj Žižek, un nuevo tipo de pensador de la izquierda]," Post-Print hal-01817268, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-01817268
    DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1291484
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