Subject Lessons

Russell Sbriglia is an assistant professor of English at Seton Hall University. He is the editor of Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Literature but Were Afraid to Ask Zizek.Slavoj Zizek is Eminent Scholar at Kyung Hee University, Seoul; Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University; and the international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London. He is the author of more than fifty books, including The Sublime Object of Ideology, Less Than Nothing, Incontinence of the Void, and Sex and the Failed Absolute.

• Introduction: Hegel, Lacan, and the Future of Materialism - Russell Sbriglia and Slavoj ŽižekPart I. Hegel and Philosophical Materialism1. What's the Matter? On Matter and Related Matters - Mladen Dolar2. Subjectivity in Times of (New) Materialisms: Hegel and Conceptualization - Borna Radnik3. Objects after Subjects: Hegel's Broken Ontology - Todd McGowan4. Elements of Dialectical Materialism in Hegel and Marx - Andrew Cole5. Intellectual Intuition and Intellectus Archetypus: Reflexivity from Kant to Hegel - Slavoj ŽižekPart II. Lacan and Psychoanalytic Materialism6. Fear of Science: Transcendental Materialism and Its Discontents - Adrian Johnston7. Ontology and the Death Drive: Lacan and Deleuze - Alenka Zupancic8. Why Sex is Special: Psychoanalysis against New Materialism - Nathan Gorelick9. Twisting "Flat Ontology": Harman's "Allure" and Lacan's Extimate Cause - Molly Anne Rothenberg10. Becoming and the Challenge of Ontological Incompleteness: Virginia Woolf avec Lacan contra Deleuze - Kathryn Van Wert11. From Sublimity to Sublimation: Hegel, Lacan, Melville - Russell SbrigliaNotesContributors

Think of it as 'object ontology' meets 'objet a ontology.' In this volume of superb essays, the 'new materialism' associated with figures like Harman, Meillassoux, Bennett, and Bryant finds a Lacanian rejoinder well spoken for by Hegel's famous line: 'Not only as substance but also as subject!' An invaluable exchange between two major currents of contemporary theory." —Richard Boothby, author of Freud as Philosopher: Metapsychology after Lacan"A band of new materialists has come after the subject, knives drawn. In what ways do these thinkers differ from materialists past? From each other? What do they mean when they speak of materialism, of objects, or subjects? By confronting these basic questions directly, the essays in this collection cut through the babble of confused debate to offer clear accounts of the issues at stake." —Joan Copjec, author of Imagine There's No Woman