Editing Slavoj Žižek (section)

====Allegations of plagiarism====
Žižek's tendency to recycle portions of his own texts in subsequent works resulted in the accusation of [[self-plagiarism]] by ''[[The New York Times]]'' in 2014, after Žižek published an [[op-ed]] in the magazine which contained portions of his writing from an earlier book.<ref name="Newsweek">{{cite web|url=http://www.newsweek.com/slavoj-zizek-self-plagiarized-new-york-times-269221|first=Taylor|last=Wofford|title=Slavoj Žižek On 'Self Plagiarism' in The New York Times: What's the Big Deal?|website=[[Newsweek]]|date=10 September 2014|access-date=29 September 2015|archive-date=29 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150929234428/http://www.newsweek.com/slavoj-zizek-self-plagiarized-new-york-times-269221|url-status=live}}</ref> In response, Žižek expressed perplexity at the harsh tone of the denunciation, emphasizing that the recycled passages in question only acted as references from his theoretical books to supplement otherwise original writing.<ref name="Newsweek"/>

In July 2014, ''[[Newsweek]]'' reported that online bloggers led by [[Steve Sailer]] had discovered that in an article published in 2006, Žižek plagiarized long passages from an earlier review by Stanley Hornbeck that first appeared in the journal ''[[American Renaissance (magazine)|American Renaissance]]'', a publication condemned by the [[Southern Poverty Law Center]] as the organ of a "white nationalist hate group".<ref name="American_Renaissance_Plagiarism">{{cite web |url=http://www.newsweek.com/did-marxist-philosophy-superstar-slavoj-zizek-plagiarize-white-nationalist-journal-258433 |first=Taylor |last=Wofford |title=Did Marxist Philosophy Superstar Slavoj Žižek Plagiarize a White Nationalist Journal? |work=Newsweek |date=11 July 2014 |access-date=13 July 2014 |archive-date=13 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140713053008/http://www.newsweek.com/did-marxist-philosophy-superstar-slavoj-zizek-plagiarize-white-nationalist-journal-258433 |url-status=live }}</ref> In response to the allegations, Žižek stated:
{{blockquote|The friend send [sic] it to me, assuring me that I can use it freely since it merely resumes another's line of thought. Consequently, I did just that—and I sincerely apologize for not knowing that my friend's resume was largely borrowed from Stanley Hornbeck's review of Macdonald's book.&nbsp;... In no way can I thus be accused of plagiarizing another's line of thought, of 'stealing ideas'. I nonetheless deeply regret the incident.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Dean|first1=Michelle|title=Slavoj Žižek Sorta Kinda Admits Plagiarizing White Supremacist Journal|url=http://gawker.com/slavoj-zizek-sorta-kinda-admits-plagiarizing-white-supr-1604590014|website=[[Gawker]]|date=14 July 2014|access-date=20 February 2015|archive-date=19 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150219010643/http://gawker.com/slavoj-zizek-sorta-kinda-admits-plagiarizing-white-supr-1604590014|url-status=dead}}</ref>}}