TOC
Contents
- 1 WHY ŽIŽEK?
- 2 KEY IDEAS
- 3 AFTER ŽIŽEK
WHY ŽIŽEK?
Popular culture and philosophy?
Is this not the way to read Žižek?
Subject of a biography: biography of a subject
This book
KEY IDEAS
Who are Žižek's influences and how do they affect his work?
Žižek's influences: philosophy, politics and psychoanalysis
Hegel
Marx
Lacan
The Imaginary
The Symbolic
The Real
The philosopher of the Real
What is a subject and why is it so important?
The cogito
The cogito and the post-structuralists
Madness: the vanishing mediator between nature and culture
The birth of God: reading the cogito via Schelling
From subject to subjectivization
What is so terrible about postmodernity
The postmodern risk society
The disintegration of the big Other
The postrnodern superego: enjoy!
Keeping it real: the return of the Other
The act
How can we distinguish reality from ideology?
False consciousness and cynicism
Belief machines
The three modes of ideology
The spectre that haunts reality
What is the relationship between men and women?
The formulae of sexuation
'Woman does not exist'
'Woman is a syrnptorn of Man'
'There is no sexual relationship'
Why is racism always a fantasy?
'Che vuoi?': 'What do you want from me?'
Looking through the fantasy window
The ethnic fantasy
