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Book SynopsisRepeating Žižek's contributors read the influential and controversial Slavoj Žižek as a philosopher. They place his work in the Western philosophical tradition and analyze it using his own theses, concepts, and methods, all while attempting to formalize his thought into a philosophical school.
Trade Review"[A] key contribution to contemporary critical thinking. . . . [T]his is required reading for those interested in understanding the value of Žižek's work as a philosopher." -- David S. Moon * Political Studies Review *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix
Introduction: The Trouble with Žižek / Agon Hamza 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 / Adrian Johnston 7
2. How to Repeat Plato?: For a Platonism of the Non-All / Frank Ruda 43
3. Materialism between Critique and Speculation / Samo Tomšic 58
4. Žižek's Reading Machine / Benjamin Noys 72
5. The Shift of the Gaze in Žižek's Philosophical Writing / Katja Kolšek 84
6. The Two Cats: Žižek, Derrida, and Other Animals / Oxana Timofeeva 100
Part II. Psychoanalysis
7. "Father, Don't You See I'm Burning?": Žižek, Psychoanalysis, and the Apocalypse / Catherine Malabou 113
8. Enjoy Your Truth: Lacan as Vanishing Mediator between Badiou and Žižek / Bruno Bosteels 127
9. The Discourse of the Wild Analyst / Henrik Jøker Bjerre and Brian Benjamin Hansen 146
10. "Vers un Significant Nouveau": Our Task after Lacan / Gabriel Tupinambá 159
11. Mourning or Melancholia? Collapse of Capitalism and Delusional Attachments / Fabio Vighi 180
Part III. Politics
12. Žižek with Marx: Outside in the Critique of Political Economy / Gavin Walker 195
13. Žižek as a Reader of Marx, Marx as a Reader of Žižek / Geoff Pfeifer 213
14. A Plea for Žižekian Politics / Agon Hamza 226
Part IV. Religion
15. The Problem of Christianity and Žižek's "Middle Period" / Adam Kotsko 243
16. Islam: How Could It Have Emerged After Christianity? / Sead Zimeri 256
Afterword. The Minimal Event: From Hystericization to Subjective Destitution / Slavoj Žižek 269
Contributors 287
Index 291
