Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: The Trouble with Žižek 1
5. PART I. PHILOSOPHY
6. 1 “Freedom or System? Yes, Please!”: How to Read Slavoj Žižek’s Less Than Nothing— Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism 7
7. 2 How to Repeat Plato? For a Platonism of the Non-All 43
8. 3 Materialism between Critique and Speculation 58
9. 4 Žižek’s Reading Machine 72
10. 5 The Shift of the Gaze in Žižek’s Philosophical Writing 84
11. 6 The Two Cats: Žižek, Derrida, and Other Animals 100
12. PART II: PSYCHOANALYSIS
13. 7 “Father, Don’t You See I’m Burning?” Žižek, Psychoanalysis, and the Apocalypse 113
14. Enjoy Your Truth: Lacan as Vanishing Mediator between Badiou and Žižek 127
15. 9 The Discourse of the Wild Analyst 146
16. 10 “Vers un Signifiant Nouveau”: Our Task after Lacan 159
17. 11 Mourning or Melancholia? Collapse of Capitalism and Delusional Attachments 180
18. PART III. POLITICS
19. 12 Žižek with Marx: Outside in the Critique of Political Economy 195
20. 13 Žižek as a Reader of Marx, Marx as a Reader of Žižek 213
21. 14 A Plea for Žižekian Politics 226
22. PART IV. RELIGION
23. 15 The Problem of Christianity and Žižek’s “Middle Period” 243
24. 16 Islam: How Could It Have Emerged after Christianity? 256
25. Afterword. The Minimal Event: From Hystericization to Subjective Destitution 269
26. Contributors 287
27. Index 291