Schlagend, aber nicht Treffend!

@article{iek2006SchlagendAN,  title={Schlagend, aber nicht Treffend!},  author={Slavoj Ži{\vz}ek},  journal={Critical Inquiry},  year={2006},  volume={33},  pages={185 - 211},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:154718020}}
Things look really bad forme inErnesto Laclau’s response (Laclau,“Why Constructing a People Is theMain Task of Radical Politics,”Critical Inquiry 32 [Summer 2006]: 646–80) tomyessay “Against thePopulistTemptation”. I have again and again “utterly missed the point” (p. 654) ; I am “entirely unaware” (p. 654) of the theoretical consequences of the concepts I use; I have “not understood even the ABCs of the theory of hegemony” (p. 664); my reproaches are “pure invention” (p. 658) and do not… 

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