Understanding Žižek, Understanding Modernism
1501367455, 9781501367458
Slavoj Žižek is one of today’s leading theorists, whose polemical works span topics from German idealism to Lacanian psy
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Table of contents :
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Understanding Žižek, Understanding Modernism
Jeffrey R. Di Leo (University of Houston, Victoria, USA) and Zahi Zalloua (Whitman College, US)
Part I: Mapping Žižek
1. Lacan and Žižek on the Cogito and the Modern: Galileo, or Hegel?, Ed Puth
2. Žižek's Hegel, our Hegel, Agon Hamza
3. Žižek and the (Chinese Dialectic of the) Revolution, Frank Ruda
4. Being Sexed: Žižek's Modern Ontology, James Penney
5. Nil Actum Credens, Si Quid Superesset Agendum: or, Slavoj, Can't You See I'm Burning? Žižek avec the Clusterfuck of 2020, Clint Burnham
6. What's Wrong with Being Happy? Žižek's Critique of Happiness, Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Part II. A Leftist Plea for Modernism
7. Žižek avec Montaigne, Zahi Zalloua
8. Žižek and the Bartleby Paradox: I Would Prefer Not To?, Cindy Zeiher
9. Hitchcock's Modernist Hauntology, Laurence Simmons
10. Žižek's Redemptive Reading of Richard Wagner's Ambivalent Modernity, Erik Vogt
11. Žižek's Critique of the Authoritarian Personality, Geoff Boucher
12. What Is Worth Salvaging In Modernity: A Realist Perspective From Non-Philosophical
Marxism to Žižek's Universalism, Katerina Kolozova
13. Are We Human? Or, Posthumanism and the Subject of Modernity, Matthew Flisfeder
Part III: Glossary
14. Enjoyment, Todd McGowan
15. Ideology, Glyn Daly
16. Universality, Ilan Kapoorr
17. The Subject, Russell Sbriglia
18. Symptom, David J. Gunkel
19. Class, Matthew Bost
20. Violence, Oxana Timofeeva
21. The Death Drive, Zahi Zalloua
Notes on Contributors
Index