Bibliograph

Less than nothing, Hegel and the shadow of dialectical materialism, Slavoj Žižek

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Less than nothing, Hegel and the shadow of dialectical materialism, Slavoj Žižek

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Less than nothing

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

858803496

Responsibility statement

Slavoj Žižek

Sub title

Hegel and the shadow of dialectical materialism

Summary

For the last two centuries, Western philosophy has developed in the shadow of Hegel, whose influence each new thinker tries in vain to escape: whether in the name of the pre-rational Will, the social process of production, or the contingency of individual existence. Hegel's absolute idealism has become the bogeyman of philosophy, obscuring the fact that he is the dominant philosopher of the epochal historical transition to modernity; a period with which our own time shares startling similarities. Today, as global capitalism comes apart at the seams, we are entering a new transition. In Less Than Nothing, the pinnacle publication of a distinguished career, Slavoj Žižek argues that it is imperative that we not simply return to Hegel but that we repeat and exceed his triumphs, overcoming his limitations by being even more Hegelian than the master himself

Table Of Contents

Introduction: Eppur si muove -- Part I. The drink before. "Vacillating the semblances" -- "Where there is nothing, read that I love you" -- Fichte's choice -- Part II. The thing itself: Hegel. Is it still possible to be a Hegelian today? -- Interlude 1: Marx as a reader of Hegel, Hegel as a reader of Marx -- Parataxis : figures of the dialectical process -- Interlude 2: Cogito in the history of madness -- "Not only as substance, but also as subject" -- Interlude 3: King, rabble, war ... and sex -- The limits of Hegel -- Part III. The thing itself: Lacan. Lacan as a reader of Hegel -- Interlude 4: Borrowing from the future, changing the past -- Suture and pure difference -- Interlude 5: Correlationism and its discontents -- Objects, objects everywhere -- Interlude 6: Cognitivism and the loop of self-positing -- The non-all, or, the ontology of sexual difference -- Part IV. The cigarette after. The foursome of terror, anxiety, courage ... and enthusiasm -- The foursome of struggle, historicity, will ... and Gelassenheit -- The ontology of quantum physics -- Conclusion: The political suspension of the ethical

Target audience

adult

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