A book of profound philosophical investigation. David Marx Book Reviews
INTRODUCTION: IS HEGEL DEAD - OR ARE WE DEAD (IN THE EYES OF HEGEL)?When the Kraken WakesA Report from the Trenches of Dialectical MaterialismI THE DISPARITY OF TRUTH: SUBJECT, OBJECT, AND THE REST1. FROM HUMAN TO POSTHUMAN AND BACK TO INHUMAN: THE PERSISTENCE OF ONTOLOGICAL DIFFERENCEAspects of DisparityAgainst the Univocity of BeingPosthuman, Transhuman, InhumanHyperobjects in the Age of AnthropoceneBiology or Quantum Physics?2. OBJECTS, OBJECTS AND THE SUBJECTRe-enchanting Nature? No, Thanks!A Detour: Ideology in PluriverseOn a Subject Which Is Not an ObjectResistance, Stasis, RepetitionSpeculative JudgmentThe Subject's Epigenesis3. SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS, WHICH SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS? AGAINST THE RENORMALIZATION OF HEGELIn Defense of Hegel's MadnessThe Immediacy of MediationThe Stick in Itself, for Us, for ItselfAction and ResponsibilityRecollection, Forgiveness, ReconciliationHealing the WoundSelf-consciousness = Freedom = ReasonReflexivity of the UnconsciousII THE DISPARITY OF BEAUTY: THE UGLY, THE ABJECT, AND THE MINIMAL DIFFERENCE4. ART AFTER HEGEL, HEGEL AFTER THE END OF ARTWith Hegel Against HegelThe Ugly GazeFrom the Sublime to the MonstrousHegel's Path towards the NonfigurativeBetween Auschwitz and Telenovelas5. VERSIONS OF ABJECT: UGLY, CREEPY, DISGUSTINGVarieties of DisavowalTraversing Abjection"MOOR EEFFOC"From Abjective to CreepyMamatschi!Eisler's Sinthoms6. WHEN NOTHING CHANGES: TWO SCENES OF SUBJECTIVE DESTITUTIONThe Lesson of PsychoanalysisMusic as a Sign of LoveA Failed BetrayalScene from a Happy LifeIII THE DISPARITY OF THE GOOD: TOWARDS A MATERIALIST NEGATIVE THEOLOGY7. TRIBULATIONS OF A WOMAN-HYENA: AUTHORITY, COSTUME, AND FRIENDSHIPWhy Heidegger Should Not Be CriminalizedThe Birth of Fascism out of the Spirit of BeautyDon Carlos between Auhthority and FriendshipStalin as Anti-MasterSchiller versus HegelThe Self-Debased Authority8. IS GOD DEAD, UNCONSCIOUS, EVIL, IMPOTENT, STUPID OR JUST COUNTERFACTUAL?On Divine InexistenceCounterfactualsRetroactivity, Omnipotence, and ImpotenceThe Twelfth Camel as One of the Names of GodA Truth That Arises out of a LieThe Divine Death-DriveThe Deposed God9. JECT OR SCEND? FROM THE TRAUMATIZED SUBJECT TO SUBJECT AS TRAUMAThe Parallax of Drive and DesireImmortality as Death in LifeThe Troubles with FinitudeMaterialism or Agnosticism?A Comical ConclusionCONCLUSION: THE COURAGE OF HOPELESSNESSThe Millenarian "Exhalation of Stale Gas"Divine ViolenceThe Points of the ImpossibleIndex
Slavoj Zizek is a Hegelian philosopher, a Lacanian psychoanalyst, and a Communist. He is International Director at the Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK, Visiting Professor at the New York University, USA, and Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
