The Borders of Things

S.Z. Stole My Argument

Slavoj Zizek does it again.

Perhaps a few of you read my post from a while back which was struggling to articulate a number of problems and issues surrounding religion in the political world, particularly in regards to the furor over the cartoon representations of the Prophet.

Zizek, is his idiosyncratic way, offers this editorial in the NY Times which both says what I wanted to say, far more elegently, as well as couching the discussion in extremely equivocal language. S.Z. and his cohorts have this uncanny rhetorical move they pull where they argue that the truest expression of a thing, like Christianity, is found in its opposite. Ah, Hegelians.

As always, it's provocative. And it's nice to see smart guys making the Times top-five email list.