Tarrying with the Negative - Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology

A theoretical analysis of social conflict that uses examples from Kant, Hegel, Lacan, popular culture and contemporary politics to critique nationalism.

List of contents

Introduction 1

I. Cogito: The Void Called Subject

1. "I or He or It (the Thing) Which Thinks" 9

2. Cogito and the Sexual Difference 45

II. Ergo: The Dialectical Nonsequitur

3. On Radical Evil and Related Matters 83

4. Hegel's "Logic of Essence" as a Theory of Ideology 125

III. Sum: The Loop of Enjoyment

5. "The Wound is Healed Only by the Spear That Smote You" 165

6. Enjoy Your National As Yourself? 200

Notes 239

Index 287

About the author

Slavoj Zizek

Summary

Challenges the contemporary critique of ideology, and in doing so opens the way for a new understanding of social conflict, particularly the recent outbursts of nationalism and ethnic struggle.

Product details

• Authors: Slavoj Zizek
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.10.1993
• EAN: 9780822313625
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-1362-5
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 249 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 690 g
• Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention; Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works