Slavoj Žižek and Dialectical Materialism

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction: The Absolute Revisited—Slavoj Žižek and Dialectical Materialism....Pages 1-2
Materialism without Materialism: Slavoj Žižek and the Disappearance of Matter....Pages 3-22
The Althusserian Battlegrounds....Pages 23-41
The Necessity of an Absolute Misunderstanding: Why Hegel Has So Many Misreaders....Pages 43-55
From Hegel to Kant: The Thing-of-Itself German Idealism....Pages 57-68
Politics of Negativity in Slavoj Žižek: Actualizing Some Hegelian Themes....Pages 69-84
Dialectic at Its Impurest: Žižek’s Materialism of Less Than Nothing....Pages 85-99
Natural Worlds, Historical Worlds, and Dialectical Materialism....Pages 101-112
Positing the Presuppositions—Dialectical Biology and the Minimal Structure of Life....Pages 113-132
Transferential Materialism: Toward a Theory of Formal Otherness....Pages 133-146
Dialectical Materialism and the Dangers of Aristotelianism....Pages 147-161
Going to One’s Ground: Žižek’s Dialectical Materialism....Pages 163-175
Afterword: Objects, Objects Everywhere....Pages 177-192
Back Matter....Pages 193-197