TOC
Contents
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?
ŽižeA'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 roediator between nature and culture The birth of God: reading the cog ito 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 rne?'
LooAing through the fantasy window
The ethnic fantasy
The ethics of fantasy
AFTER ŽIŽEK
The curse of Jacques: limitations on the influence of Žižek Leftism Universal criticism The retroactive ŽižeA
