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3 Materialism between Critique and Speculation
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction: The Trouble with Žižek 1
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PART I. PHILOSOPHY
- 1 “Freedom or System? Yes, Please!”: How to Read Slavoj Žižek’s Less Than Nothing— Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism 7
- 2 How to Repeat Plato? For a Platonism of the Non-All 43
- 3 Materialism between Critique and Speculation 58
- 4 Žižek’s Reading Machine 72
- 5 The Shift of the Gaze in Žižek’s Philosophical Writing 84
- 6 The Two Cats: Žižek, Derrida, and Other Animals 100
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PART II: PSYCHOANALYSIS
- 7 “Father, Don’t You See I’m Burning?” Žižek, Psychoanalysis, and the Apocalypse 113
- Enjoy Your Truth: Lacan as Vanishing Mediator between Badiou and Žižek 127
- 9 The Discourse of the Wild Analyst 146
- 10 “Vers un Signifiant Nouveau”: Our Task after Lacan 159
- 11 Mourning or Melancholia? Collapse of Capitalism and Delusional Attachments 180
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PART III. POLITICS
- 12 Žižek with Marx: Outside in the Critique of Political Economy 195
- 13 Žižek as a Reader of Marx, Marx as a Reader of Žižek 213
- 14 A Plea for Žižekian Politics 226
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PART IV. RELIGION
- 15 The Problem of Christianity and Žižek’s “Middle Period” 243
- 16 Islam: How Could It Have Emerged after Christianity? 256
- Afterword. The Minimal Event: From Hystericization to Subjective Destitution 269
- Contributors 287
- Index 291
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction: The Trouble with Žižek 1
-
PART I. PHILOSOPHY
- 1 “Freedom or System? Yes, Please!”: How to Read Slavoj Žižek’s Less Than Nothing— Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism 7
- 2 How to Repeat Plato? For a Platonism of the Non-All 43
- 3 Materialism between Critique and Speculation 58
- 4 Žižek’s Reading Machine 72
- 5 The Shift of the Gaze in Žižek’s Philosophical Writing 84
- 6 The Two Cats: Žižek, Derrida, and Other Animals 100
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PART II: PSYCHOANALYSIS
- 7 “Father, Don’t You See I’m Burning?” Žižek, Psychoanalysis, and the Apocalypse 113
- Enjoy Your Truth: Lacan as Vanishing Mediator between Badiou and Žižek 127
- 9 The Discourse of the Wild Analyst 146
- 10 “Vers un Signifiant Nouveau”: Our Task after Lacan 159
- 11 Mourning or Melancholia? Collapse of Capitalism and Delusional Attachments 180
-
PART III. POLITICS
- 12 Žižek with Marx: Outside in the Critique of Political Economy 195
- 13 Žižek as a Reader of Marx, Marx as a Reader of Žižek 213
- 14 A Plea for Žižekian Politics 226
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PART IV. RELIGION
- 15 The Problem of Christianity and Žižek’s “Middle Period” 243
- 16 Islam: How Could It Have Emerged after Christianity? 256
- Afterword. The Minimal Event: From Hystericization to Subjective Destitution 269
- Contributors 287
- Index 291