A review by miguelf
Like a Thief in Broad Daylight by Slavoj Žižek

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.