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How Žižek’s Critics Get It Right and Wrong on Syria

How Žižek’s Critics Get It Right and Wrong on Syria

While Žižek has dismissed the plight of refugees in recent months, framing them as a threat to European and Western civilization, his critics fail to identify what's wrong—and right—in his commentary.

May 25, 2016
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by Anas El Hawat

Slavoj Žižek, prolific Marxist theorist and enfant terrible of the Left, has been running his mouth on refugees in recent months.

Žižek has dismissed the plight of migrants and refugees as nothing more than a “liberal-cultural topic of tolerance and solidarity,” rather than a genuinely tragic humanitarian catastrophe. His position has bee…

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