The Bloomsbury Handbook to Slavoj Žižek.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Finkelde, Dominik, editor.

Series:

Bloomsbury Handbooks Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Žižek, Slavoj.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (657 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2026.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2026.

System Details:

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Summary:

An extensive and substantial guide to the life and work of Žižek by the leading experts on his oeuvre.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

CONTENTS

Preface

Part I: Life

Chapter 1: Žižek's Intellectual Biography: Brutalism and Metaphysics

Childhood and Studies in Ljubljana and Paris

The Formation of the Ljubljana School of Psychoanalysis

Symptom-Analyses with Marx and Lacan

A Marxist Hegel

The Materialist Legacy of Christianity

Part II: Contexts

Chapter 2: Žižek and Neue Slowenische Kunst

The Conflict over Laibach

OVERIDENTIFICATION

Chapter 3: Žižek's Poetry: Early Engagements with the Slovene Avant-Garde

Chapter 4: The Legacy of Poststructuralism

Determination by Absence

Stubborn Subjectivity

Chapter 5: On Finitude: Heidegger and Žižek

Embracing Finitude

Politics of the Will

Chapter 6: Enjoy! Neo-Capitalism and the Duty to Enjoy

Civilization and Its Discontent

Enjoyment as a Political Factor

Chapter 7: Radical Democratic Theory: Laclau, Mouffe, Rancière, Butler

Emancipatory Practice

Genuine Change

Chapter 8: The Legacy of Christianity

Christianity and Subversion

Community of Believers

Chapter 9: Speculative Realism (Žižek and Meillassoux, Harman, and Gabriel)

Correlationism

Object-Oriented Ontology

Substance and Subject

Chapter 10: Neuroscience, Cogito, and Consciousness

Metzinger: "You are here"

Damasio's "I" of Homeostasis

Dennett's Egoless Subsystems

Metaphysics and Death Drive

Chapter 11: Justice, Law, and Violence

Justice According to Marx and Žižek

Divine Violence

Chapter 12: The Ljubljana School: Imaginary Institution, Real Effects

The Troika

The Absence of What Makes Us Human

Cultural Diagnostics

The Voice

The Shuttle

Part III: Work 1: Ideology Studies and Critical Theory

Chapter 13: The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989).

The Symptom in Marx and Freud

Metaobjects of interpellation

Irresponsible subjects

Chapter 14: For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Political Factor (1991)

Efficacy of the Symbolic

Versions of Disavowal

Greimas's Semiotics

Placeholder of the Void

Chapter 15: Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture (1991) and Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and out (1992)

Methodology and Popular Culture

Fantasy as the Key to Desire

The Real of Desire

Enjoy Your Symptom

The Real of Drives and the Symbolic Identity

Chapter 16: The Metastases of Enjoyment: Six Essays on Women and Causality (1994)

The Limits of the Pleasure Principle

Between Determinism and Mental Causation

Object of Desire

The Internal Division of the Law

Sexual Difference

Chapter 17: The Plague of Fantasies (1997)

Functions of fantasy

The Fundamental Fantasy

Ideology Critique

Potentials and Limits of Ideology Critique

Hysteria in Cyberspace

Chapter 18: Organs without Bodies: On Deleuze and Consequences (2004)

Deleuze and Žižek's Encounter

"Deleuze equals Hegel": Žižek's Aufhebung of Deleuze

Deleuze, Žižek, and the Politics of the "New"

Part IV: Work 2: German Idealism and Psychoanalysis

Chapter 19: The Most Sublime Hysteric: Hegel with Lacan (2014)

Form and Content

Fantasy and Appearance

Traversal of the Fantasy and Absolute Knowledge

Chapter 20: Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology (1993)

Kant or the Necessary Fantasy

Substance as Subject

The Cogito an Empty Act

Chapter 21: The Indivisible Remainder: An Essay on Schelling and Related Matters (1996)

The Cosmic Rotary Motion of Drives

THE Abyss of Freedom

Reading Schelling Psychoanalytically

Schelling's Materialism.

The Subject Is the Effect of an Ontological Catastrophe

Schelling's Metapsychology

Rethinking Lacan trough Schelling

Schelling, Lacan, and Quantum Mechanics

Chapter 22: The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology (1999)

The Problem with Imagination

Badiou: Political Subjectivity

In Dialogue with Butler

Chapter 23: The Parallax View (2006)

The Split within Appearance

The Physics of Consciousness

Chapter 24: Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism (2012)

From Kant to Hegel

The Political Suspension of Ethics

Chapter 25: Absolute Recoil: Towards a New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism (2014)

The Contingency of Necessity

Absolute Knowledge

Class Struggle

Chapter 26: Sex and the Failed Absolute (2019)

Rejection of the Transcendentalism

Sex as Our Brush with the Absolute

Part V: Work 3: Religion and Christianity

Chapter 27: The Fragile Absolute: Or, Why the Christian Legacy Is Worth Fighting For? (German Edition, 2000)

Antagonism within the Social Order

The Real as "Limit of Historicization"

Radical Negativity

Chapter 28: On Belief (2001)

Latency of Belief

Political Christianity

Chapter 29: The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity (2003)

The Universal Community

Subversive Potentials

There Is No "Aufhebung"

Chapter 30: The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic? with John Milbank (2009)

Theology and Philosophy

Radical Orthodoxy

The Logic of Creation as Division

Cold Ethics

Part VI: Work 4: Radical Politics

Chapter 31: Revolution at the Gates: Žižek on Lenin: The 1917 Writings (2002)

Politics of Violence

With Lenin against Democracy?.

Chapter 32: The Political Suspension of the Ethical [Die politische Suspension des Ethischen] (2005)

Žižek's Critique of Postmodern Ethics of Otherness

Žižek's Ideology-Critical Analysis of Radical Democratic Theory

Chapter 33: In Defense of Lost Causes (2008)

An Atonal World

Žižek's Critique of the Critique of the State

Dirty Hands

Chapter 34: "Enjoyment within the Limits of Reason Alone" (2001)

The Symbolic and the Real

Engaging with the Real

Ideology

Politics of Subtraction

Enjoyment

Chapter 35: Violence: Six Sideways Reflections (2008)

Subjective and Objective Violence

The Traumatic "Neighbor"

Emancipation

Part VII: Work 5: Film, Art, and Technology

Chapter 36: The Fright of Real Tears: Krzysztof Kieślowski between Theory and Post-Theory (2001)

The Universality of Exception

Real Fictions

The Double Life of Veronique and Three Colours

Chapter 37: The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime: On David Lynch's Lost Highway (2000)

Theory of the Femme Fatale

Canned Hatred

Reception and Criticism

Traces of Lynch in Other Works by Žižek

Chapter 38: Antigone (2016)

Antigone's (Un)holy Particularity

Creon Yields to Antigone (1. Variation)

Transformation of the Chorus (2. Variation)

Medea or Antigone?

Žižek's Three Suppressions

Chapter 39: Hegel in a Wired Brain (2020)

The Loss of Subjectivity

The Fate of the Unconscious

Nameless within Singularity

Part VIII: Themes and Leitmotifs

Chapter 40: Initial Insights: In Praise of Early Žižek

A Master's Thesis with Consequences

Sign, Signifier, Writing

Confronting Marxism as a State Doctrine

Production of Commodities and the Signifying Practice

Chapter 41: Topology and Logical Time: Žižek's Aesthetic of the Signifier

In Mundo Non Datur . . .

Strange Temporality

A Libidinal Metric.

Chapter 42: Parallax, Negativity, and Dialectical Materialism

Dietzgen, Plekhanov, Stalin, and . . . Žižek

Against the Given

The Gap in Nature

The "Object"-Cause of Desire to Determine Reality

Parallax

Chapter 43: Cosmogony Recapitulates Ontogeny: Žižek and F. W. J. Schelling's The Ages of the World

Divine Negativity: From Schelling's Conflicted God to Lacan's Split Subject

A New Natura Naturans: Žižek and Schellingian Physics

Chapter 44: Dialectics Contra Phenomenology

Cuts and Connections

An Excessive Beginning

Sublimely Making a Cut

Žižek in Conversation

The First Cut Is the Deepest

Chapter 45: Postmodern Enjoyment: Theory and Ideology in Žižekian Cultural and Media Studies

The Postmodern Condition, or

The "Demise of Symbolic Efficiency"

Revenge of the Superego

Communicative Capitalism

The Digital Drive

Hegel and the Critique of Ideology

Part IX: Philosophical Sources

Chapter 46: Louis Althusser

Chapter 47: Alain Badiou

Chapter 48: Judith Butler

Chapter 49: Jacques Derrida

Chapter 50: Sigmund Freud

Chapter 51: Georg W. F. Hegel

Chapter 52: Martin Heidegger

Chapter 53: Alfred Hitchcock

The Critique of Ideology in Hitchcock's Films

Why Should One Ask Hitchcock to Comprehend Lacan?

Chapter 54: Immanuel Kant

Chapter 55: Jacques Lacan

Chapter 56: Ernesto Laclau

Chapter 57: Vladimir I. Lenin

Chapter 58: David Lynch

Chapter 59: Karl Marx

Chapter 60: Quentin Meillassoux

Chapter 61: John Milbank

Chapter 62: Friedrich W. J. Schelling

Part X: Concepts

Chapter 63: Act

Chapter 64: Big Other

Chapter 65: Chiasm

Chapter 66: Christianity

Chapter 67: Concrete Universality

Chapter 68: Death Drive

Chapter 69: Desire/Drive

Chapter 70: Enjoy!

Chapter 71: Fantasy

Chapter 72: Forced Choice

Chapter 73: God.

Chapter 74: Ideology.

ISBN:

1-350-40215-X

1-350-40214-1

9781350402140

OCLC:

1564373264