Repeating Žižek

Agon Hamza is a PhD candidate in philosophy at the Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU in Ljubljana, Slovenia. With Slavoj Žižek, he is the coauthor of From Myth to Symptom: The Case of Kosovo.

• Acknowledgments  ixIntroduction: The Trouble with Žižek / Agon Hamza 1Part I. Philosophy1. "Freedom or System? Yes, Please!": How to Read Slavoj Žižek's Less Than Nothing-Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism / Adrian Johnston 72. How to Repeat Plato?: For a Platonism of the Non-All / Frank Ruda 433. Materialism between Critique and Speculation / Samo TomŠic 584. Žižek's Reading Machine / Benjamin Noys 725. The Shift of the Gaze in Žižek's Philosophical Writing / Katja KolŠek 846. The Two Cats: Žižek, Derrida, and Other Animals / Oxana Timofeeva 100Part II. Psychoanalysis7. "Father, Don't You See I'm Burning?": Žižek, Psychoanalysis, and the Apocalypse / Catherine Malabou 1138. Enjoy Your Truth: Lacan as Vanishing Mediator between Badiou and Žižek / Bruno Bosteels 1279. The Discourse of the Wild Analyst / Henrik JØker Bjerre and Brian Benjamin Hansen 14610. "Vers un Significant Nouveau": Our Task after Lacan / Gabriel TupinambÁ 15911. Mourning or Melancholia? Collapse of Capitalism and Delusional Attachments / Fabio Vighi 180Part III. Politics12. Žižek with Marx: Outside in the Critique of Political Economy / Gavin Walker 19513. Žižek as a Reader of Marx, Marx as a Reader of Žižek / Geoff Pfeifer 21314. A Plea for Žižekian Politics / Agon Hamza 226Part IV. Religion15. The Problem of Christianity and Žižek's "Middle Period" / Adam Kotsko 24316. Islam: How Could It Have Emerged After Christianity? / Sead Zimeri 256Afterword. The Minimal Event: From Hystericization to Subjective Destitution / Slavoj Žižek 269Contributors 287Index 291

"[A] key contribution to contemporary critical thinking. . . . [T]his is required reading for those interested in understanding the value of Žižek's work as a philosopher." - David S. Moon (Political Studies Review)