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    <body><![CDATA[This book was very difficult, but I still enjoyed it a lot. It gives me a warm feeling to realize that I am not the only one for whom &quot;the era of big ideas&quot; is not over. A terrific rebuttal of &quot;post-modern&quot; philosophy. Standard criticisms of Zizek apply - after lambasting the con...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53064303">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Unfortunatrely I have to return it to the library since it has been requested by anohter reader. Bu tI'll request in again in 2 weeks when it is due back from them.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Zizek challenges, as usual. In this tome he engages the question of what, then, we ought to do and/or be in this world of ours. The tone ranges from excruciatingly technical to breezy, irreverent, and enamored with popular culture. A few stretches are a slog, and his concluding pages seem strangely ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67286603">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A mini doorstop from the blathering Slovenian (Actually, he calls himself a metaphysical materialist, now).]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I am third on the waitlist to take a class with him in the fall!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Skimmed it... the parts I read were pretty fun in the usual insane Zizek way...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[So 20th century Russian classical music isn't really my thing but I guess it's Zizek's. A lot of the interesting stuff seemed to have been said better in his other books. Too much psychoanalysis for my taste. His treatment of his critics was pretty awesome yet disparaging. It's sad that it makes me ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42750192">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[As testimony of the social function of bookstores vs. amazon, I saw this beauty in a Berlin bookstore, silently beckoning to me. The title is so appropriate, so timely. Henceforth, Zizek's Yugoslavian wit entered my life, and I'm better off for it. Thank you intellectual bookstores! Condemnation to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36790093">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[As usual, I found it difficult to follow Zizek from one page to the next.  It doesn't help that I'm not familiar with most of the pop cultural / obscure film examples that he relies on.  At most, all that I get from him are a few isolated badass paragraphs which encapsulate interesting ideas, but I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30413450">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[waiting for this in paperback. I'm really intrigued because I'm starting to think that eco-totalitarianism has surpassed communism as my favorite form of government, and it looks like Zizek is thinking the same thing.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[All about Zizek buat libur Lebaran kali ini<br/><br/>Tak harus sepenuhnya menyetujui untuk bisa merasakan semangatnya. Sungguh bikin adrenalin menggelegak]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a pleasant departure for me, getting into Continental political philosophy. Enjoyed the non-analytical insights and unorthodox viewpoints.]]></body>
    
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