bunnyju's review against another edition
informative
reflective
4.5
Really interesting although at times he feels like he’s rambling about some random pop culture ou historical fact. It is a “light” way of consuming really difficult concepts to think abstractly
silea's review against another edition
Old Cis Herero White Man rants about Identity politics. *yawn* oh look he has a podcast too.
trapper's review against another edition
1.0
Boring book. Lots of digressions. Barely connected topics. The author repeats analyses and stories from his other books, so he almost says nothing new. A few logically weak arguments in this book. I find it to contain incoherent points. The author loves to change the subject constantly only to get to the point eventually, which I found frustrating and pointless. The author is all over the place. This book is not for me. It was a waste of money and time.
liambaker19's review against another edition
challenging
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.5
miguelf's review against another edition
4.0
In listening to Zizek’s podcast for the past few years, even though I might not fully take in all of his ideas and points, I can at least appreciate his many themes and of course always be entertained with his humor and very wide criticism on a range of topics. All of those tropes are on display in ‘Like a Thief’; the philosophical musings that always seem to involve Hegel, the dirty Communist-era jokes, the film criticism, and the social commentary. Films reviewed range from Lubitch to Black Panther (!), and the social commentary touches on quite a few of the current hot button social issues – ones that others tread lightly on but Zizek appears more than happy to expound on. Always entertaining, sometimes baffling. One unfortunate issue is that the audiobook is read not with the very familiar and iconic Zizek voice, but by a voice actor and unfortunately a difficult-to-understand British one at that.
jorisvanmens's review against another edition
2.0
I did not finish this book: I spent some 5 hours on it but the prose went in parts over my head (lots of references to other modern philosophy, people, and parts of pop culture I don't know much about) and in parts it just didn't entice me (seemingly incoherent critical opinions of all kinds of aspects of modern society, without much in terms of useful advice or solutions). It may be interesting to active students of modern philosophy, but made me glad I'm not one of them.
morgan_blackledge's review against another edition
3.0
Zizek is a creative and wired thinker. His work is shrewd and lacerating at times, entertaining and esthetically pleasing at others, and frustrating and sort of useless at other times.
This book is a collection of essays, ostensibly on the topic of the failures of late capitalism, neoliberal democracy and victim identity politics.
All REALLY IMPORTANT issues right NOW!
And I was enthralled by the more lucid moments when Zizek hits the target
This book is a collection of essays, ostensibly on the topic of the failures of late capitalism, neoliberal democracy and victim identity politics.
All REALLY IMPORTANT issues right NOW!
And I was enthralled by the more lucid moments when Zizek hits the target
bookishbandito's review against another edition
challenging
medium-paced
3.0
Rambles and rambles
Zizek does it again. He is so prolific but sometimes his concluding paragraphs are the only things that make sense to me!
Zizek does it again. He is so prolific but sometimes his concluding paragraphs are the only things that make sense to me!