Hamza Repeating Žižek

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7547-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

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Repeating 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hamza, Agon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Transzendentalphilosophie, Kritizismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments 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

Über Autor(innen)

Agon Hamza is a PhD candidate in philosophy at the Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU in Ljubljana, Slovenia. With Slavoj Žižek, he is the coauthor of From Myth to Symptom: The Case of Kosovo.