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Less Than Nothing Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism

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ISBN-10: 1781681279

ISBN-13: 9781781681275

Edition: 2013

Authors: Slavoj Zizek

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For the last two centuries, Western philosophy has developed in the shadow of Hegel, an influence each new thinker struggles to escape. As a consequence, Hegel's absolute idealism has become the bogeyman of philosophy, obscuring the fact that he is the defining philosopher of the historical transition to modernity, a period with which our own times share startling similarities.Today, as global capitalism comes apart at the seams, we are entering a new period of transition. In Less Than Nothing, the product of a career-long focus on the part of its author, Slavoj _i_ek argues it is imperative we not simply return to Hegel but that we repeat and exceed his triumphs, overcoming his…    
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Book details

Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 8/28/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 1056
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.20" long x 2.20" tall
Weight: 2.948
Language: English

Introduction: Eppur Si Muove
The Drink Before
"Vacillating the Semblances"
What cannot be said must be shown
Idea's appearing
From fictions to semblances
Dialectical gymnastics? No, thanks!
From the One to den
"Nothing exists"
Gorgias, not Plato, was the arch-Stalinist!
"Where There Is Nothing, Read That I Love You"
A Christian Tragedy?
The big Other
The death of God
The atheist wager
"Do not compromise your desire"
Lacan against Buddhism
Fichte's Choice
From Fichte's Ich to Hegel's Subject
The Fichtean wager
Anstoss and Tat-Handlung
Division and limitation
The finite Absolute
The posited presupposition
The Fichtean bone in the throat
The first modern theology
The Thing Itself: Hegel
Is It Still Possible to Be a Hegelian Today?
Hegel versus Nietzsche
Struggle and reconciliation
A story to tell
Changing the destiny
The owl of Minerva
Potentiality versus virtuality
The Hegelian circle of circles
Marx as a Reader of Hegel, Hegel as a Reader of Marx
Parataxis: Figures of the Dialectical Process
In praise of Understanding
Phenomena, noumena, and the limit
The differend
Negation of the negation
Form and content
Negation without a filling
Cogito in the History of Madness
"Not Only as Substance, but Also as Subject"
Concrete universality
Hegel, Spinoza… and Hitchcock
The Hegelian Subject
Absolute Knowing
The Idea's constipation?
The animal that I am
King, Rabble, War… and Sex
The Limits of Hegel
A List
Necessity as self-sublated contingency
Varieties of self-relating negation
The formal aspect
Aufhebung and repetition
From repetition to drive
The Thing Itself: Lacan
Lacan as a Reader of Hegel
The Cunning of Reason
The Lacanian prosopopoeia
Lacan, Marx, Heidegger
The "magical force" of reversal
Reflection and supposition
Beyond intersubjectivity
Drive versus Will
The unconscious of self-consciousness
Borrowing from the Future, Changing the Past
Suture and Pure Difference
From differentially to the phallic signifier
From the phallic signifier to objet a
Sibelius's silence
The pure difference
Correlationism and Its Discontents
Objects, Objects Everywhere
Subtraction, protraction, obstruction… destruction
The objet a between form and content
Voice and gaze
The grandmothers voice
The Master and its specter
The two sides of fantasy
Image and gaze
Presence
"The picture is in my eye, but me, I am in the picture"
Leave the screen empty!
Cognitivism and the Loop of Self-Positing
The Non-All, or, the Ontology of Sexual Difference
Sexual difference in the disenchanted universe
The real of sexual difference
Formulae of sexuation: the All with an exception
Formulae of sexuation: the non-All
The antinomies of sexual difference
Why Lacan is not a nominalist
Negation of the negation: Lacan versus Hegel?
"There is a non-relationship"
The Cigarette After
The Foursome of Terror, Anxiety, Courage… and Enthusiasm
Being/World/Event
Truth, inconsistency, and the symptomal point
There is no human animal
Badiou against Levinas
From terror to enthusiasm
Badiou and antiphilosophy
The Foursome of Struggle, Historicity, Will… and Getassenheit
Why Lacan is not a Heideggerian
Hegel versus Heidegger
The torture-house of language
An alternative Heidegger
From will to drive
The non-historical core of historicity
From Gelassenheit to class struggle
The Ontology of Quantum Physics
The ontological problem
Knowledge in the Real
Agential realism
The two vacuums
Y'a de den
Conclusion: The Political Suspension of the Ethical
Index