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SUMMARY:Positioning the Intellectual: Žižek as a Sociological Phenomenon
  - Elian Bar-El\, Department of Sociology
DTSTART:20171128T131000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Arthur Dudney
DESCRIPTION:[NOTE CHANGE OF SPEAKER AND TOPIC] Ever since the beginning of
  the 21st century\, Žižek has been considered both a worldwide prominent
  thinker and a militant intellectual. Deemed by some as the most dangerous
  philosopher is the West\, and by others as one of the world's best-known 
 public intellectuals\, he has a journal\, dictionary\, and a nightclub nam
 ed after him. How can we account for the rise to prominence of the Sloveni
 an philosopher Slavoj Žižek? From peripheral Slovenia\, lacking prestigi
 ous academic credentials\, without proper intellectual elegancy\, this qui
 rky Hegelo-Lacanian has nevertheless firmly placed himself at the epicentr
 e of today’s global intellectual landscape. By using a performative fram
 ework and positioning theory I will explore this phenomenon sociologically
 \, and will render it intelligible by carefully tracing the causal links o
 f this exceptional emergence. Walking between the (battle-) lines of biogr
 aphy and history\, the sociological account which highlights interventions
  might\, in turn\, also inform us about the societal condition under which
  such intellectual activity is taking place.
LOCATION:The Richard King Room\, Darwin College
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