Definitely the end of revolutions and serious political engagement plays a role here. Deleuze actually said in the ABC's of Deleuze that "all revolutions fail." Already when 'critical theory' was coined, Adorno and Horkheimer were disillusioned with politics and modernity and it is only worse today. I agree that thinkers today are much more concerned with their own ideas than directly shaping the world around them, Zizek openly says we should reverse Marx's eleventh thesis.
it was more like a wry and reticent observation than a factual claim. he was talking about how ineffective the communist party meetings he went to in college were. he said that the revolution would be better helped by people finishing their theses than by pretending that the revolution was to begin tomorrow. this is exactly what you brought up, the shift in perspective from Lenin et al. writing about how to actually take power to philosophizing about how to see things.
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Definitely the end of revolutions and serious political engagement plays a role here. Deleuze actually said in the ABC's of Deleuze that "all revolutions fail." Already when 'critical theory' was coined, Adorno and Horkheimer were disillusioned with politics and modernity and it is only worse today. I agree that thinkers today are much more concerned with their own ideas than directly shaping the world around them, Zizek openly says we should reverse Marx's eleventh thesis.
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Out of context but lol.
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it was more like a wry and reticent observation than a factual claim. he was talking about how ineffective the communist party meetings he went to in college were. he said that the revolution would be better helped by people finishing their theses than by pretending that the revolution was to begin tomorrow. this is exactly what you brought up, the shift in perspective from Lenin et al. writing about how to actually take power to philosophizing about how to see things.
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