Less Than Nothing: Hegel And The Shadow Of Dialectical Materialism
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Less Than Nothing: Hegel And The Shadow Of Dialectical Materialism
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Overview
For the last two centuries, Western philosophy has developed in the shadow of Hegel, an influence each new thinker struggles to escape. As a consequence, Hegel’s absolute idealism has become the bogeyman of philosophy, obscuring the fact that he is the defining philosopher of the historical transition to modernity, a period with which our own times share startling similarities.
Today, as global capitalism comes apart at the seams, we are entering a new period of transition. In Less Than Nothing—the product of a career-long focus on the part of its author—Slavoj Žižek argues it is imperative we not simply return to Hegel but that we repeat and exceed his triumphs, overcoming his limitations by being even more Hegelian than the master himself. Such an approach not only enables Žižek to diagnose our present condition, but also to engage in a critical dialogue with key strands of contemporary thought—Heidegger, Badiou, speculative realism, quantum physics, and cognitive sciences. Modernity will begin and end with Hegel.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781781681275 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Verso Books |
| Publication date: | 09/10/2013 |
| Edition description: | Reprint |
| Pages: | 1056 |
| Sales rank: | 295,233 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.10(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.80(d) |
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Eppur Si Muove 1
Part I The Drink Before
1 "Vacillating the Semblances" 23
What cannot be said must be shown 23
Idea's appearing 33
From fictions to semblances 42
Dialectical gymnastics? No, thanks! 48
From the One to den 53
"Nothing exists" 60
Gorgias, not Plato, was the arch-Stalinist! 69
2 "Where There Is Nothing, Read That I Love You" 79
A Christian Tragedy? 80
The big Other 86
The death of God 96
The atheist wager 112
"Do not compromise your desire" 121
Lacan against Buddhism 127
3 Fichte's Choice 137
From Fichte's Ich to Hegel's Subject 140
The Fichtean wager 145
Anstoss and Tat-Handlung 151
Division and limitation 156
The finite Absolute 160
The posited presupposition 168
The Fichtean bone in the throat 171
The first modern theology 179
Part II The Thing Itself: Hegel
4 Is It Still Possible to Be a Hegelian Today? 193
Hegel versus Nietzsche 194
Struggle and reconciliation 199
A story to tell 207
Changing the destiny 213
The owl of Minerva 219
Potentiality versus virtuality 226
The Hegelian circle of circles 232
Interlude 1 Marx as a Reader of Hegel, Hegel as a Reader of Marx 241
5 Parataxis: Figures of the Dialectical Process 265
In praise of Understanding 269
Phenomena, noumena, and the limit 280
The differend 286
Negation of the negation 292
Form and content 305
Negation without a filling 311
Interlude 2 Cogito in the History of Madness 327
6 "Not Only as Substance, but Also as Subject" 359
Concrete universality 359
Hegel, Spinoza… and Hitchcock 367
The Hegelian Subject 379
Absolute Knowing 387
The Idea's constipation? 394
The animal that I am 408
Interlude 3 King, Rabble, War… and Sex 417
7 The Limits of Hegel 455
A List 455
Necessity as self-sublated contingency 463
Varieties of self-relating negation 473
The formal aspect 480
Aufhebung and repetition 491
From repetition to drive 496
Part III The Thing Itself: Lacan
8 Lacan as a Reader of Hegel 507
The Cunning of Reason 508
The Lacanian prosopopoeia 513
Lacan, Marx, Heidegger 520
The "magical force" of reversal 529
Reflection and supposition 536
Beyond intersubjectivity 541
Drive versus Will 546
The unconscious of self-consciousness 551
Interlude 4 Borrowing from the Future, Changing the Past 557
9 Suture and Pure Difference 581
From differentially to the phallic signifier 581
From the phallic signifier to objet a 597
Sibelius's silence 603
The pure difference 608
Interlude 5 Correlationism and Its Discontents 625
10 Objects, Objects Everywhere 649
Subtraction, protraction, obstruction… destruction 649
The objet a between form and content 660
Voice and gaze 666
The grandmothers voice 672
The Master and its specter 679
The two sides of fantasy 685
Image and gaze 691
Presence 695
"The picture is in my eye, but me, I am in the picture" 702
Leave the screen empty! 708
Interlude 6 Cognitivism and the Loop of Self-Positing 715
11 The Non-All, or, the Ontology of Sexual Difference 739
Sexual difference in the disenchanted universe 739
The real of sexual difference 745
Formulae of sexuation: the All with an exception 756
Formulae of sexuation: the non-All 764
The antinomies of sexual difference 772
Why Lacan is not a nominalist 780
Negation of the negation: Lacan versus Hegel? 787
"There is a non-relationship" 794
Part IV The Cigarette After
12 The Foursome of Terror, Anxiety, Courage… and Enthusiasm 805
Being/World/Event 805
Truth, inconsistency, and the symptomal point 815
There is no human animal 819
Badiou against Levinas 827
From terror to enthusiasm 831
Badiou and antiphilosophy 841
13 The Foursome of Struggle, Historicity, Will… and Getassenheit 859
Why Lacan is not a Heideggerian 859
Hegel versus Heidegger 865
The torture-house of language 869
An alternative Heidegger 878
From will to drive 882
The non-historical core of historicity 890
From Gelassenheit to class struggle 896
14 The Ontology of Quantum Physics 905
The ontological problem 906
Knowledge in the Real 918
Agential realism 931
The two vacuums 944
Y'a de den 950
Conclusion: The Political Suspension of the Ethical 963
Index 1011