Responses to the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek have been, like Žižek himself, extreme. Critics have accused him of charlatanism on the one hand, while others have lauded his genius, especially as a public intellectual, on the other. This makes it difficult to find any kind of nuanced or interesting critical appraisal of his work. At its best Žižek's work provides a new foundation of dialectical philosophy, beyond the glitz of stardom or oversimplified sinister disdain. Žižek Responds! combines philosophers and theorists engaging with Žižek's philosophy in order to explore its unnoticed implications, its conceptual problems, or its unrealized potential. With detailed and lively responses from Žižek himself, this book offers an unique insight into how this thinker might explain, clarify and hone some of his most controversial and misunderstood ideas. At once an introduction to Žižek's most important concepts and a rare and novel insight into his thoughts on the criticisms of his work, this is indispensible reading for both Žižekians and their critics.

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Information

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic

Year

2023

ISBN

9781350328952

Edition

Topic

Philosophy

Subtopic

Philosophy History & Theory

Cover
Half-Title Page
Series Page
Title Page
Contents
Notes on the Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART ONE Ontology
1 Cake or Doughnut? Žižek and German Idealist Emergentisms
2 Truth as Bacchanalian Revel: Žižek and the Risks of Irony
3 Žižek and the Retroactivity of the Real
4 Slavoj Žižek’s Hegel
PART TWO Ideology
5 Slavoj Žižek Is Not Violent Enough
6 Žižek’s Foundationless Building: Ideology Critique as an Existentialist Choice
7 The Subject Is Not Enough Henrik
8 Žižek and Derrida: Hospitality, Hostility, and the “Real” Neighbor
9 The Politics of Incompleteness: On Žižek’s Theory of the Subject
PART THREE Psychoanalysis
10 Reading the Illegible: On Žižek’s Interpretation of Lacan’s “Kant with Sade”
11 Raising a Mundane Object to the Dignity of the Thing: When Desire is Not the Desire of the Other
12 Hoping Against Hope: Žižek, Jouissance, and the Impossible
13 Žižek and the War in an Era of Generalized Foreclosure
14 Harpo’s Grin: Rethinking Lacan’s Unthinkable “Thing”
Index
Copyright