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Der neue Klassenkampf: Die wahren Gründe für Flucht und Terror by Slavoj Žižek
challenging
informative
reflective
fast-paced
3.75
Someone here says that it doesn’t read like a philosophical text but like a rant from a tipsy philosopher in a bar. Yeah, that might be true but I would love to have a tipsy discussion with a philosopher at a bar. Also this book doesn’t claim that it is scientifically. It‘s more of an essay but that doesn‘t make it less important.
Overall I liked the book. It gave me lot‘s to think about and a lot of impulses for my own opinions. I don‘t agree with everything. Zizek simplifies a lot, I don‘t understand the mention of Israel on a lot of pages and overall the examples he gave weren‘t fitting for a lot of things and seemed quite random.
My main criticism is that he writes about the lack of women‘s and queer rights as if it would be only a problem in islamic cultures. While I see differences in different countries and cultures, women and queers aren‘t free anywhere. The opression and the violence is just different there. Also there is a lot of othering going on: „we“ and „them“.
But all in all it‘s an important book. We need more leftist texts about this issue. I don‘t believe one book or one person can give universal answers, so this is just one piece to the whole picture.
Overall I liked the book. It gave me lot‘s to think about and a lot of impulses for my own opinions. I don‘t agree with everything. Zizek simplifies a lot, I don‘t understand the mention of Israel on a lot of pages and overall the examples he gave weren‘t fitting for a lot of things and seemed quite random.
My main criticism is that he writes about the lack of women‘s and queer rights as if it would be only a problem in islamic cultures. While I see differences in different countries and cultures, women and queers aren‘t free anywhere. The opression and the violence is just different there. Also there is a lot of othering going on: „we“ and „them“.
But all in all it‘s an important book. We need more leftist texts about this issue. I don‘t believe one book or one person can give universal answers, so this is just one piece to the whole picture.