Author(s): Thomas Brockelman
Series: Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy
Publisher: Continuum
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 198
Contents......Page 6
Beginning from style?......Page 8
Reading Žižek(,) reading Heidegger......Page 14
Acknowledgements......Page 22
Part I: Žižek and Heidegger: the alpha and the omega......Page 24
1. Thinking, finitely: Žižek on Heidegger on finitude......Page 26
Being and Time and modernity: the insight......Page 27
Heidegger’s retreat......Page 33
History and political life: Nazism and will......Page 39
Žižek on Heidegger on technology......Page 47
Technology is not the question......Page 51
Right question. Wrong answer: the crisis of technology rehabilitated......Page 61
The end of “Žižek and Heidegger”: breaking up......Page 65
Part II: Slowing Žižek down: modernity and techno-capitalism......Page 68
The Cartesian specter and the ghost of perspective......Page 70
Fundamental fantasy and master signifier......Page 77
Modernity and fantasy......Page 82
Conclusion......Page 91
Ideology today: re-calibrating dialectical materialism......Page 93
The perverse individual......Page 98
Culture: de-materializing the social......Page 103
The dark force: violence and techno-capitalism......Page 107
Over-identification and revolution......Page 113
Part III: The split subject of history......Page 118
5. Splitting history: Žižek on utopia and revolution......Page 120
Revolution: the impossible......Page 123
The labor of the act......Page 131
Unfolding revolution: where does Žižek stand?......Page 138
6. The pervert and the philosopher (as witnessed by) the theologian and the analyst......Page 142
Christianity and perversity in The Puppet and the Dwarf......Page 145
The desire of the analyst......Page 150
Conclusion: Žižek ex Machina......Page 162
Notes......Page 166
Bibliography......Page 184
C......Page 192
F......Page 193
H......Page 194
M......Page 195
P......Page 196
S......Page 197
Z......Page 198
