（小ネタ）Is there life before death?

ジジェクの本はそれほど読んでいないのですが、彼のやり取りが面白かったのでご紹介します。簡単なインタービューはやり取りの楽しさを味わうことができます。

October 11, 2013 7:28 pm
The Inventory: Slavoj Zizek
Interview by Hester Lacey
‘I find myself intolerable. I cannot look at myself on screen,’ says the philosopher and star of ‘The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology’

Philosopher and cultural critic Slavoj Zizek, 64, has been described as “the Elvis of cultural theory”. He is senior researcher at the Institute for Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, and professor of philosophy and psychoanalysis at the European Graduate School.

師匠に関する質問は傲慢な答えなので、まねできませんが、言い切れるとかっこいいです。

Who was or still is your mentor?
Unfortunately the answer is no one. I mostly considered my professors idiots.

面白い答えと思ったのは以下の部分です。
Do you believe in an afterlife?
The German dissident Wolf Biermann said that the idealist question is “Is there life after death?” but the true question is “Is there life before death?” Are we truly alive? I sometimes doubt it.

If you had to rate your satisfaction with your life so far, out of 10, what would you score?
Considering my work, my books, 10. For my personal life, zero.

ブレヒトの有名な言葉“Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life”にも通じるものがありますが、 “Is there life after death?”という問いを“Is there life before death?”と変えるところが面白いですね。それになかなか痛いところついてきますよね。特に今は暢気にネットを読んでいる最中なので。。。

質問に答える事のバリエーションの楽しさは、アクターズスタジオのお決まりの10の質問でもうかがえますが、まずジジェクの回答を見てみます。

What ambitions do you still have?
To write another big, fat, substantial book on philosophy.

What is the greatest achievement of your life so far?
My last big, fat book, Less Than Nothing.

これに対して、９月に似たようなインタビューに答えていたMargaret Atwoodの答えが以下です。

What are you most proud of writing?
I’m Canadian. We’re not allowed to have emotions like that.

これはCanadianをJapaneseに変えれば我々も使えそうなものですね（笑）

“Is there life before death?”に答えるためにも、今から遊びにいってこようと思います。