Description
Book SynopsisChallenges the contemporary critique of ideology, and in doing so opens the way for a new understanding of social conflict, particularly the recent outbursts of nationalism and ethnic struggle.
Trade Review"This new Zizek is as stunning as its predecessors, and breaks new philosophical ground. Not only to Kant and Hegel illuminate Lacan (and vice versa), mass culture and politics illuminate all of them, along with a bonus in an astonishing excursus on opera."—Fredric Jameson
“Slavoj Žižek, the Giant of Ljubljana, . . . provides the best intellectual high since
Anti-Oedipus.” -- Scott Malcolmson * Voice Literary Supplement *
Table of ContentsIntroduction 1
I. Cogito: The Void Called Subject
1. "I or He or It (the Thing) Which Thinks" 9
2. Cogito and the Sexual Difference 45
II. Ergo: The Dialectical Nonsequitur
3. On Radical Evil and Related Matters 83
4. Hegel's "Logic of Essence" as a Theory of Ideology 125
III. Sum: The Loop of Enjoyment
5. "The Wound is Healed Only by the Spear That Smote You" 165
6. Enjoy Your National As Yourself? 200
Notes 239
Index 287
