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Originally Posted by peter12
Zizek has terrible opinions on things. Like genuinely immoral horrible opinions.
That said, yes, Zizek is a pretty great Hegel scholar, but his public persona is just as formulated as Peterson's.
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Zizek is an edge-lord without a doubt. All the same, his work does have academic merit in the sense that it provides tools that help understanding discourse.
The debate of public persona is an interesting one, it is kind of a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation. If one only interacts in academic circles they are chastised as living in an ivory tower and circle jerking. If they want to have any public credibility they need to brand themselves, or at least understand that people will based all of their work on a 20 second sound bite.
It is no wonder mental health issues are so bad in academia, it is a process of ####ting all over everything, and having your life's work #### all over by people who don't read it, or refuse to see any value in it.