Introducing Slavoj Zizek: A Graphic Guide (Graphic Guides)

Pros:Good overview and key concerns and ideas. Zizek's foreground-espoused atheism, at least according to this introduction's implications, is circumstantial happenstance that neatly conforms to his Communist idealism and his postmodern liberational politics...because he "authentically desires it to", possibly because he identifies politically with the "transgressions" of the "pervert" that lives on the margins of the "big Other's" dominating collective pro-capitalist discourse. That said, it's an expectedly ethical atheism informed by the promise of Marxist critique. I don't find it necessary to his ideas, however, and so I do think there is room for people of informed faith to read Zizek, if only for reference. This book might well be such a digestible introduction.Cons:I find gaping holes in any critique of Zizek's frequent disavowal of influences. Instead, we find him saying that such and such thinker in the past agrees with him... O_o And the authors of this book say not one word about that. Mmmkay.

Fairly standard explication of Zizek's ideas until about 2010. It does not significantly discuss Zizek's work on German idealism, but does cover Zizek's reading of Lacan and Christianity as well as his Pre-2010 political ideas fairly clearly and humorously.

This is a good introductory text to the work of Žižek. Žižek’s work can be extraordinarily dense and difficult to digest but this text does a nice job providing readers with a (very) surface view of his major concepts and contributions to philosophy. I would recommend this text, coupled with Kelsey Wood’s Readers Guide, as a good starting point to engage his work. I have spent the past few years immersed in Žižek’s work as the foundation for my dissertation and still found this book to be thoroughly enjoyable and worth the read.

Important as an introduction to this thinker, and Christopher does a nice job of presenting the work in an easy format.

This introducing book is a good start towards understanding Zizek's conception of the truth and other of his fascinating Ideas.I know really want to know more about him .

the go to book for wanting to read Zizek without any effort.

Pretty good and clear introduction to a very difficult subject

This was my second Ziziek book after reading the Desert of the Real. Both were intense but worth the investment.

Very simplified and not entirely correct.

Very helpful overview of where to start looking to understand this prolific author and thinker. Very useful as a jumping-off point, although more indexing of these ideas to their originating texts would have been even more useful.

Would recommend and so on and so on. for anyone looking for a concise guide that quickly covers key ideas!

Easy on the read

I have really enjoyed this introduction. It was far better than I expected. I should say that i have read many Zizek books, so I was not starting from zero, but it made many things come together. It made sense of things .. sorry Slavoj.