For They Know Not What They Do

by Slavoj Zizek (Author)

There are philosophical books, minor classics even, which are widely
known and referred to, although practically no one has actually read
them page by page (John Rawls’s Theory of Justice, for example, or
Robert Brandom’s Making It Explicit) — a nice example of interpassivity, where some figure of the Other is supposed to do the reading
for us. I hope For they know not what they do avoided this fate by, at
least, really being read.