Less than nothing : Hegel and the shadow of dialectical materialism / Slavoj Žižek.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Žižek, Slavoj.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich.

Physical Description:

x, 1038 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Verso, 2012.

Summary:

Full of his customary controversial dynamism and rhetorical onslaught, Zizek's (sociology, U. of Ljubljana) latest work brings all of his previous work on cultural theory home to roost in a gargantuan examination of Hegel and his enduring influence. Arguing that Hegel's ideas should be embraced, embodied and exaggerated to understand and make sense of modern life and the current unrest and revolutionary impulses in the world, the author draws on a dizzying set of cultural data to serve as examples of and devices to explain Hegel's brilliance and relevance as a framework to understand the world. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

1. The drink before

"Vacillating the semblances"

"Where there is nothing, read that I love you"

Fichte's choice

2. The think 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

3. 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

4. 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.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781844678976

1844678970

9781844678891

184467889X

OCLC:

767564471