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Informationen zum Autor Agon Hamza is a PhD candidate in philosophy at the Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU in Ljubljana, Slovenia. With Slavoj Žižek, he is the coauthor of From Myth to Symptom: The Case of Kosovo. Klappentext Repeating ¿i¿ek offers a serious engagement with the ideas and propositions of philosopher Slavoj ¿i¿ek. Often subjecting ¿i¿ek's work to a ¿i¿ekian analysis, this volume's contributors consider the possibility (or impossibility) of formalizing ¿i¿ek'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 ¿i¿ek'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 ¿i¿ek 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 ¿i¿ekian school of philosophy-perhaps his idiosyncratic and often heterogeneous ideas simply resist synthesis-but even in their repetition of ¿i¿ek, they create something new and vital.Contributors. Henrik Jøker Bjerre, Bruno Bosteels, Agon Hamza, Brian Benjamin Hansen, Adrian Johnston, Katja Kol¿ek, Adam Kotsko, Catherine Malabou, Benjamin Noys, Geoff Pfeifer, Frank Ruda, Oxana Timofeeva, Samo Tom¿ic, Gabriel Tupinambá, Fabio Vighi, Gavin Walker, Sead Zimeri, Slavoj ¿i¿ek Zusammenfassung Repeating Žižek's contributors read the influential and controversial Slavoj Žižek as a philosopher. They place his work in the Western philosophical tradition and analyze it using his own theses, concepts, and methods, all while attempting to formalize his thought into a philosophical school. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction: The Trouble with Žižek / Agon Hamza 1 Part I. Philosophy 1. "Freedom or System? Yes, Please!": How to Read Slavoj Žižek's Less Than Nothing—Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism / Adrian Johnston 7 2. How to Repeat Plato?: For a Platonism of the Non-All / Frank Ruda 43 3. Materialism between Critique and Speculation / Samo Tomšic 58 4. Žižek's Reading Machine / Benjamin Noys 72 5. The Shift of the Gaze in Žižek's Philosophical Writing / Katja Kolšek 84 6. The Two Cats: Žižek, Derrida, and Other Animals / Oxana Timofeeva 100 Part II. Psychoanalysis 7. "Father, Don't You See I'm Burning?": Žižek, Psychoanalysis, and the Apocalypse / Catherine Malabou 113 8. Enjoy Your Truth: Lacan as Vanishing Mediator between Badiou and Žižek / Bruno Bosteels 127 9. The Discourse of the Wild Analyst / Henrik Jøker Bjerre and Brian Benjamin Hansen 146 10. "Vers un Significant Nouveau": Our Task after Lacan / Gabriel Tupinambá 159 11. Mourning or Melancholia? Collapse of Capitalism and Delusional Attachments / Fabio Vighi 180 Part III. Politics 12. Žižek with Marx: Outside in the Critique of Political Economy / Gavin Walker 195 13. Žižek as a Reader of Marx, Marx as a Reader of Žižek / Geoff Pfeifer 213 14. A Plea for Žižekian Politics / Agon Hamza 226 Part IV. Religion 15. The Problem of Christianity and Žižek's "Middle Period" / Adam Kotsko 243 16. Islam: How Could It Have Emerged After Christianity? / Sead Zimeri 256 Afterword. The Minimal Event: From Hystericization to Subjective Destitution / Slavoj Žižek 269 Contributors 287 Index 291...
