Repeating Žižek / with an afterword by Slavoj Žižek ; Agon Hamza, ed.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hamza, Agon, 1984-

Series:

SIC (Durham, N.C.)

Sic series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Žižek, Slavoj--Criticism and interpretation.

Žižek, Slavoj.

Philosophy, Modern--History and criticism--21st century.

Philosophy, Modern.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2015.

Summary:

Repeating Zizek offers a serious engagement with the ideas and propositions of philosopher Slavoj Zizek. Often subjecting Zizek's work to a Zizekian analysis, this volume's contributors consider the possibility (or impossibility) of formalizing Zizek's ideas into an identifiable philosophical system. They examine his interpretations of Hegel, Plato, and Lacan, outline his debates with Badiou, and evaluate the implications of his analysis of politics and capitalism upon Marxist thought. Other essays focus on Zizek's approach to Christianity and Islam, his "sloppy" method of reading texts, his relation to current developments in neurobiology, and his theorization of animals. The book ends with an afterword by Zizek in which he analyzes Shakespeare's and Beckett's plays in relation to the subject. The contributors do not reach a consensus on defining a Zizekian school of philosophy-perhaps his idiosyncratic and often heterogeneous ideas simply resist synthesis-but even in their repetition of Zizek, they create something new and vital. Book jacket.

Contents:

The trouble with Žižek / Agon Hamza

Philosophy

"Freedom or system" Yes, please!: how to read Slavoj Žižek's less than nothing, Hegel and the shadow of dialectical materialism / Adrian Johnston

How to repeat Plato? for a platonism of the non-all / Frank Ruda

Materialism between critique and speculation / Samo Tomsic

Žižek's reading machine / Benjamin Noys

The shift of the gaze in Žižek's philosophical writing / Katja Kolsek

The two cats: Žižek, Derrida, and other animals / Oxana Timofeeva

Psychoanalysis

"Father, can't you see I'm burning?" Žižek, psychoanalysis, and the apocalypse / Catherine Malabou

Enjoy your truth: Lacan as vanishing mediator between Badiou and Žižek/ Bruno Bosteels

The discourse of the wild analyst / Henrik Joker Bjerre and Brian Benjamin Hansen

"Vers un signifiant nouveau": our task after Lacan / Gabriel Tupinambá

Mourning or melancholia? Collapse of capitalism and delusional attachments / Fabio Vighi

Politics

Žižek with Marx: outside in the critique of political economy / Gavin Walker

Žižek as a reader of Marx, Marx as a reader of Žižek / Geoff Pfeifer

A plea for Žižekan politics / Agon Hamza

Religion

The problem of christianity and Žižek's "middle period" / Adam Kotsko

Islam: how could it have emerged after christianity? / Sead Zimeri

Afterword the minimal event: from hystericization to subjective destitution / Slavoj Žižek.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822359050

0822359057

9780822358916

0822358913

OCLC:

883647069