(H/B) LESS THAN NOTHING

Παρουσίαση

For the last two centuries, Western philosophy has developed in the shadow of Hegel, whose influence each new thinker tries in vain to escape: whether in the name of the pre-rational Will, the social process of production, or the contingency of individual existence. Hegel's absolute idealism has become the bogeyman of philosophy, obscuring the fact that he is the dominant philosopher of the epochal historical transition to modernity; a period with which our own time shares startling similarities.
Today, as global capitalism comes apart at the seams, we are entering a new transition. In Less Than Nothing, the pinnacle publication of a distinguished career, Slavoj Zizek argues that it is imperative that we not simply return to Hegel but that we repeat and exceed his triumphs, overcoming his limitations by being even more Hegelian than the master himself. Such an approach not only enables Zizek to diagnose our present condition, but also to engage in a critical dialogue with the key strands of contemporary thought-Heidegger, Badiou, speculative realism, quantum physics and cognitive sciences. Modernity will begin and end with Hegel. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Introduction: Eppur Si Muove
PART I: THE DRINK BEFORE
1. "Vacillating the Semblances"
2. "Where There Is Nothing, Read That I Love You"
3. Fichte's Choise
PART II: THE THING ITSELF: HEGEL
4. Is It Still Possible to Be a Hegelian Today?
Interlude 1: Marx as a Reader of Hegel, Hegel as a Reader of Marx
5. Parataxis: Figures of the Dialectical Process
Interlude 2: Cogito in the History of Madness
6. "Not Only as Substance, but Also as Subject"
Interlude 3: King, Rabble, War ... and Sex
7. The Limits of Hegel
PART III: THE THING ITSELF: LACAN
8. Lacan as a Reader of Hegel
Interlude 4: Borrowing from the Future, Changing the Past
9. Suture and Pure Difference
Interlude 5: Correlationism and Its Discontents
10. Objects, Objects Everywhere
Interlude 6: Cognitivism and the Loop of Self-Positing
11. The Non-All, or, The Ontology of Sexual Difference
PART IV: THE CIGARETTE AFTER
12. The Foursome of Terror, Anxiety, Courage. . .and Enthusiasm
13. The Foursome of Struggle, Historicity, Will. . .and Gelassenheit
14. The Ontology of Quantum Physics
Conclusion: The Political Suspension of the Ethical
Index