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