Repeating Žižek offers a serious engagement with the ideas and propositions of philosopher Slavoj Žižek. Often subjecting Žižek's work to a Žižekian analysis, this volume's contributors consider the possibility (or impossibility) of formalizing Žižek's ideas into an identifiable philosophical system. They examine his interpretations of Hegel, Plato, and Lacan, outline his debates with Badiou, and evaluate the implications of his analysis of politics and capitalism upon Marxist thought. Other essays focus on Žižek's approach to Christianity and Islam, his "sloppy" method of reading texts, his relation to current developments in neurobiology, and his theorization of animals. The book ends with an afterword by Žižek in which he analyzes Shakespeare's and Beckett's plays in relation to the subject. The contributors do not reach a consensus on defining a Žižekian school of philosophy—perhaps his idiosyncratic and often heterogeneous ideas simply resist synthesis—but even in their repetition of Žižek, they create something new and vital.
Contributors. Henrik Jøker Bjerre, Bruno Bosteels, Agon Hamza, Brian Benjamin Hansen, Adrian Johnston, Katja Kolšek, Adam Kotsko, Catherine Malabou, Benjamin Noys, Geoff Pfeifer, Frank Ruda, Oxana Timofeeva, Samo Tomšic, Gabriel Tupinambá, Fabio Vighi, Gavin Walker, Sead Zimeri, Slavoj Žižek
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Agon Hamza, Introduction: The Trouble with Žižek
- Part I. Philosophy
- 1. Adrian Johnston, “Freedom or System? Yes, Please!”: How to Read Slavoj Žižek’s Less Than Nothing—Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism
- 2. Frank Ruda, How to Repeat Plato? For a Platonism of the Non-All
- 3. Samo Tomšič, Materialism between Critique and Speculation
- 4. Benjamin Noys, Žižek’s Reading Machine
- 5. Katja Kolšek, The Shift of the Gaze in Žižek’s Philosophical Writing
- 6. Oxana Timofeeva, The Two Cats: Žižek, Derrida, and Other Animals
- Part II. Psychoanalysis
- 7. Catherine Malabou, “Father, Don’t You See I’m Burning? ”Žižek, Psychoanalysis, and the Apocalypse
- 8. Bruno Bosteels, Enjoy Your Truth: Lacan as Vanishing Mediator between Badiou and Žižek
- 9. Henrik Jøker Bjerre and Brian Benjamin Hansen, The Discourse of the Wild Analyst
- 10. Gabriel Tupinambá, “Vers un Signifiant Nouveau”: Our Task after Lacan
- 11. Fabio Vighi, Mourning or Melancholia? Collapse of Capitalism and Delusional Attachments
- Part III. Politics
- 12. Gavin Walker, Žižek with Marx: Outside in the Critique of Political Economy
- 13. Geoff Pfeifer, Žižek as a Reader of Marx, Marx as a Reader of Žižek
- 14. Agon Hamza, A Plea for Žižekian Politics
- Part IV. Religion
- 15. Adam Kotsko, The Problem of Christianity and Žižek’s “Middle Period”
- 16. Sead Zimeri, Islam: How Could It Have Emerged after Christianity?
- Slavoj Žižek, Afterword: The Minimal Event: From Hystericization to Subjective Destitution
- Contributors
- Index
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