Slavoj Žižek and Dialectical Materialism

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: The Absolute Revisited—Slavoj Žižek and Dialectical Materialism
Agon Hamza and Frank Ruda
Notes
2. Materialism without Materialism: Slavoj Žižek and the Disappearance of Matter
Adrian Johnston
Notes
Bibliography
3. The Althusserian Battlegrounds
Robert Pfaller
Answering or Treating the Philosophical Questions?
The Unbelievable and the Material
The Visible, the Invisible, and the Non-Existent Tanks
The Knees and the Subjects
The Meaningless and the Meaning
Three Althusserian Subjectivities
Notes
Bibliography
4. The Necessity of an Absolute Misunderstanding: Why Hegel Has So Many Misreaders
Todd McGowan
“Even He Did Not Understand Me”
The Difficulty of Contradicting Oneself
A Totality That Undermines Itself
Emancipation from Resolution
Notes
Bibliography
5. From Hegel to Kant: The Thing-of-Itself German Idealism
Jan Voelker
Notes
Bibliography
6. Politics of Negativity in Slavoj Žižek: Actualizing Some Hegelian Themes
Vladimir Safatle
Negation as a Political Act
What Does Desire Really Lack of?
Passion for the Real and Critic of Ideology
Notes
Bibliography
7. Dialectic at Its Impurest: Žižek’s Materialism of Less Than Nothing
Simon Hajdini
Notes
Bibliography
8. Natural Worlds, Historical Worlds, and Dialectical Materialism
Ed Pluth
Notes
Bibliography
9. Positing the Presuppositions—Dialectical Biology and the Minimal Structure of Life
Victor Marques
The Organism and the Possibility of Freedom
Varela and Dialectical Biology
Infinity and Strange Loops
Dialectical Materialism and the Genesis of the Subject
Notes
Bibliography
10. Transferential Materialism: Toward a Theory of Formal Otherness
Gabriel Tupinambá
The Dialectics of Generalization and Regionalization
Existence and Expression in the Transferential Relation
The “One” and the Subject Supposed to Know
A General Theory of Formal Otherness
Notes
Bibliography
11. Dialectical Materialism and the Dangers of Aristotelianism
Frank Ruda
Performative Contradiction? Yes, Please!
The Black Sun of Dialectical Materialism
The Danger of Transcendental Fuckedupness
Where Do Norms Come From?
Notes
Bibliography
12. Going to One’s Ground: Žižek’s Dialectical Materialism
Agon Hamza
Dialectical Framework
Return as a Repetition
Žižek, Our Hegel
Notes
Bibliography
13. Afterword: Objects, Objects Everywhere
Slavoj Žižek
Notes
Notes on Contributors
Index