Žižek: Beyond Foucault

Front Matter....Pages i-v
Prologue....Pages 1-3
Front Matter....Pages 5-6
Why Discourse?....Pages 7-11
Foucault’s Critical Historicism....Pages 12-17
The Positive Unconscious: in Search of the Matrix....Pages 18-24
Suspending Ontological Questions....Pages 25-28
Matrix Reloaded: Žižek’s Ideology Critique....Pages 29-40
Locating Antagonism: the Return of Class Struggle....Pages 41-51
Beyond Anti-capitalism and Liberal Democracy....Pages 52-73
Front Matter....Pages 75-76
Where There Is power…....Pages 77-87
… There Is Resistance....Pages 88-98
The Missing Subject....Pages 99-108
Liberation Hurts: Žižek on Superego, Masochism and Enacted Utopia....Pages 109-120
The Leninist Act....Pages 121-127
Commodity Fetishism: From Desire to Drive....Pages 128-163
Front Matter....Pages 165-166
Žižek Against Badiou: the Real Beyond the Event....Pages 167-182
‘There Is No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship’: the Formal Deadlock of Sexuality....Pages 183-189
Objet a, or the Ruse of Masculinity....Pages 190-193
Woman’s ‘Not-All’ and the Paradox of Passive Aggression....Pages 194-202
The Zero-level of Femininity: the Real as Symbolic Failure....Pages 203-209
The Miracle of Love and the Real of Christianity....Pages 210-224
Front Matter....Pages 165-166
Epilogue: Maradona in Mexico....Pages 225-236
Back Matter....Pages 237-252