In Defense of Lost Causes

[Dave Monroe]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Dave Monroe
<against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> Slavoj Žižek
> In Defense of Lost Causes
>
> http://www.versobooks.com/books/tuvwxyz/xyz-titles/zizek_defense_lost_causes.shtml
>
> "In his free time, Žižek likes to surf the internet for child
> pornography and teach his small son how to pull the legs off spiders"
>
> http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article3800980.ece

"One should be careful not to throw out the baby with the dirty
water--although one is tempted to turn this metaphor around ... the
water was originally pure ... all the dirt in it comes from the baby.
What one should do, rather, is to throw out the baby before it spoils
the crystalline water with its excretions ..." ("Introduction," p. 7)