Žižek Responds!

Dominik Finkelde, Professor Todd McGowan (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

352 Seiten

2023
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-32892-1 (ISBN)

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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.

Dominik Finkelde (ed.) is Professor of Epistemology and Contemporary Philosophy at the Munich School of Philosophy, Germany. He is the author and editor of many books on German Idealism and thinkers such as Kant, Benjamin, Lacan, Badiou and Žižek including Parallax: The Dialectics of Mind and World, ed. with C. Menke and S. Žižek (Bloomsbury, 2021). Todd McGowan (ed.) is Professor of Theory and Film at the University of Vermont, USA. He is the author of many books on politics, film and contemporary theory including Universality and Identity Politics (2020). Slavoj Žižek (author) is a Slovenian philosopher holding Professorships across the world. He is one of the most prominent, popular and controversial philosophers working today.

Introduction, Dominik Finkelde and Todd McGowan

Part I: Ontology
1. Cake or Doughnut?: Žižek and German Idealist Emergentisms, Adrian Johnston (University of New Mexico, USA)

Slavoj Žižek, Response to Johnston

2. Truth as Bacchanalian Revel: Žižek and the Risks of Irony, Dominik Finkelde (Munich School of Philosophy, Germany)

Slavoj Žižek, Response to Finkelde

3. Žižek and the Retroactivity of the Real, Graham Harman (SCI-Arc, Los Angeles, USA)

Slavoj Žižek, Response to Harman

4. Slavoj Žižek’s Hegel, Robert Pippin (University of Chicago, USA)

Slavoj Žižek, Response to Pippin

Part II: Ideology
5. Slavoj Žižek Is Not Violent Enough, Todd McGowan (University of Vermont, USA)

Slavoj Žižek, Response to McGowan

6. Žižek’s Foundationless Building: Ideology Critique as an Existentialist Choice, Hilary Neroni (University of Vermont, USA)

Slavoj Žižek, Response to Neroni

7. The Subject is Not Enough, Henrik Jøker Bjerre (Aalborg University, Denmark)

Slavoj Žižek, Response to Bjerre

8. Žižek and Derrida: Hospitality, Hostility, and the “Real” Neighbor, Zahi Zalloua (Whitman College, USA)

Slavoj Žižek, Response to Zalloua

9. The Politics of Incompleteness: On Žižek’s Theory of the Subject, Nadia Bou Ali (American University of Beirut, Lebanon)

Slavoj Žižek, Response to Nadia Bou Ali

Part III: Psychoanalysis
10. Reading the Illegible: On Žižek’s Interpretation of Lacan’s ‘Kant with Sade’, Dany Nobus (Brunel University London, UK)

Slavoj Žižek, Response to Nobus

11. Raising a Mundane Object to the Dignity of the Thing: When Desire is Not the Desire of the Other, Mari Ruti (University of Toronto, Canada)

Slavoj Žižek, Response to Ruti

12. Hoping Against Hope: Žižek, Jouissance, and the Impossible, Jennifer Friedlander (Pomona College, USA)

Slavoj Žižek, Response to Friedlander

13. Psychoanalysis in Exile: Ramblings Without a World, Duane Rousselle (University of Tyumen, Russia)

Slavoj Žižek, Response to Rousselle

14. Harpo’s Grin: Rethinking Lacan’s Unthinkable “Thing”, Richard Boothby (Loyola University Maryland, USA)

Slavoj Žižek, Response to Boothby

Notes on the Contributors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	13.02.2023
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
ISBN-10	1-350-32892-8 / 1350328928
ISBN-13	978-1-350-32892-1 / 9781350328921
Zustand	Neuware