Žižek Studies

David J. Gunkel is Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Communication at Northern Illinois University, USA. He is a founding editor of the International Journal of Žižek Studies.Paul A. Taylor is Senior Lecturer in Communications Theory at the University of Leeds, UK. He is a founding editor of the International Journal of Žižek Studies.

• List of Figures – Acknowledgements – Editors’ Introduction – David J. Gunkel: Žižek and the Real Hegel – Matthew Sharpe: Žižek’s Kant, or The Crack in the Universal (Politicizing the Transcendental Turn) – Paul A. Taylor: Žižek’s Brand of Philosophical Excess and the Treason of the Intellectuals: Wagers of Sin, Ugly Ducklings, and Mythical Swans – Robert Sinnerbrink: The Hegelian "Night of the World": Žižek on Subjectivity, Negativity, and Universality – Ola Sigurdson: Hermeneutic of Hope: Problematizing Žižek’s Apocalypticism – Olivier Jutel: Barack Obama, the New Spirit of Capitalism and the Populist Resistance – Peter Bloom: Capitalism’s Cynical Leviathan: Cynicism, Totalitarianism, and Hobbes in Modern Capitalist Regulation – Japhy Wilson: The Joy of Inequality: The Libidinal Economy of Compassionate Consumerism – Levi R. Bryant: Žižek’s New Universe of Discourse: Politics and the Discourse of the Capitalist – Todd McGowan: Enjoying the Cinema – Graham Wolfe: Losing What We Never Had: Žižek and Lacan Rock On with Bryan Adams – Abigail Fagan: Interpellating Django: The Functions of the Gaze in Tarantino’s Django Unchained – Vlad Dima: You Only Die Thrice: Zombies Revisited in The Walking Dead – Luke Howie: They Were Created by Man … and They Have a Plan: Subjective and Objective Violence in Battlestar Galactica and the War on Terror – Notes on Contributors – Index.