Intellectuals, not gadflies

Critical Inquiry

Volumn 34, Issue 2 SUPPL., 2008, Pages

  Žižek, Slavoj ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 61349201465     PISSN: 00931896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/529084     Document Type: Review

References (8)

1. G. K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (London, 1986), pp. 44-45.
2. The same insight was already formulated by Heinrich Heine in his History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany in 1834, although as a positive, admirable fact: "Mark you this, you proud men of action, you are nothing but the unconscious henchmen of intellectuals, who, often in the humblest seclusion, have meticulously plotted your every deed" (quoted in Dan Hind, The Threat to Reason [London, 2007], p. 1).
3. Wendy Brown, Politics out of History (Princeton, N. J. , 2001), pp. 22-23, 28; hereafter abbreviated P.
4. Janet Afary and Kevin B. Anderson, Foucault and the Iranian Revolution (Chicago, 2005), pp. 3-4; hereafter abbreviated I.
5. Immanuel Kant, "The Contest of Faculties," Political Writings, trans. H. B. Nisbet, ed. Hans Reiss (Cambridge, 1991), p. 182; trans. mod.
6. Gilles Deleuze, Negotiations, trans. Martin Joughin (New York, 1997), p. 171.
7. Foucault, "The Spirit of a World without Spirit," in appendix to Foucault and the Iranian Revolution, p. 256.
8. Fethi Benslama, La Psychanalyse a l'epreuve de l'Islam (Paris, 2002), p. 320; my trans.