this board in a nutshell

Which one applies to /lit/? I think it is the top right.

>>9422511
Both

>>9422511
You'd hope so, but there are too many posts calling things pretentious here to give enough evidence for it.

>>9422517
>You'd hope so
You got that part right, I dislike people like Sloterdijk with his big words and people like Zizek which never seem to come to conclusions.

It seems /lit/ loves those kind of guys.

>>9422528
They love them precisely because they never come to any conclusion.

>>9422538
they just ramble on and on and so on and so on

>>9422558
Of course.

It is quite funny to be honest. I am from Slovenia, and our entire cultural community knows that Zizek is a addict who likes to speak for hours without making a single conclusion. He can not sell himself in Slovenia, but for some reason Western leftists adore him.

>>9422579
Cioran once said that when he lived in Paris and his money ran out, he had to go to salons and dinner parties four times a week to keep himself fed and "repaid" his hosts by playing the intellectual court jester. Zizek is basically that, just on a larger scale. He's popular for public discussions and so on because he always says the funniest things and is delightfully contrarian.

>>9422579
Recc me some other Slovenian philosopher

>>9422579
This is actually the case for nearly every single 'thought leader' in the world. They're laughed at in their own country but for some reason abroad they're taken super seriously which sometimes turns into their home country taking them seriously because "look they're believing him so he must have something to say!"
Everyone else never really gains a following outside of a very small group.