Slavoj Zizek: A Critical Introduction (Modern European Thinker Series) Book

So you're a terminally online millenial/zoomer who wants to be cool and bandy around Zizek like you see all those elite whitepilled chads you see. But there's one problem: you're kinda dumb and haven't read any of the works that Zizek is working off of.

Fear not, Springer is here for you, as ever. I read this years ago before my true deep dive into the Western Canon and dear god am I glad I did as opposed to reading The Sublime Object of Ideology or whatever. Like it or not, Zizek is a titanic influence on contemporary discourse and like all "great thinkers" must be treated within the historical context of their arising. Zizek himself would agree with this statement.

Parker does an admirable job of demystifying and contextualizing Zizek iconoclastic writings. When dealing with a writer who is intentional obtuse as a methodology, I think Parker did as good of a job as is possible in explicating what's going on behind the slavic mutter. This writing opened up the ground of the western canon for me in a way nothing had previously, it allowed me first access into the fractal of Western Phil.

I'm only rating it three stars because it shouldn't have to exist.