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Zusatztext Undertanding Žižek, Underszandinng Modernism is an absolutely outstanding collection of essays on Žižek; wide in range, sharp in focus and remarkably vibrant in thought. Informationen zum Autor Jeffrey R. Di Leo is Professor of English and Philosophy at the University of Houston-Victoria, USA . He is editor and founder of the critical theory journal symploke , editor-in-chief of American Book Review , and Executive Director of the Society for Critical Exchange and its Winter Theory Institute. He is author, editor, or co-editor of 40 books. His recent books include Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: An Overview (2023), Out of Print (2024), and Happiness (2024). Zahi Zalloua is Cushing Eells Professor of Philosophy and Literature and a Professor of Indigeneity, Race, and Ethnicity Studies at Whitman College and Editor of The Comparatist . His most recent work includes Solidarity and the Palestinian Cause: Indigeneity, Blackness, and the Promise of Universality (2023), Being Posthuman: Ontologies of the Future (2021), Žižek on Race: Toward an Anti- Racist Future (2020), Theory’s Autoimmunity: Skepticism, Literature, and Philosophy (2018), and Continental Philosophy and the Palestinian Question: Beyond the Jew and the Greek (2017). Vorwort Explores and illuminates Slavoj Žižek's impact on our understanding of literary and cultural modernism. Zusammenfassung Slavoj Žižek is one of today’s leading theorists, whose polemical works span topics from German idealism to Lacanian psychoanalysis, from Shakespeare to Beckett, and from Hitchcock to Lynch. Critical through and through of both post-modern ideological complacencies—e.g., the death of the subject and the return to ethics—and pre-modern ones—e.g., the re-enchantment of the world, the embrace of postcritique—Žižek doubles down on the virtues of the modern, on what it means to be modern, and to ask modern questions (about the subject, nature, and political economy) in the age of the Anthropocene. This volume takes up the challenges laid out by Žižek’s iconoclastic thinking and its reverberations in an array of fields: philosophy, psychoanalysis, political theory, literary studies, and film studies, among others. Žižek’s multi-disciplinary appeal attests to the provocation, if not scandal, of his politically incorrect thought. Understanding Žižek, Understanding Modernism makes the force and inventiveness of Žižek’s writings accessible to a wide range of students and scholars invested in the open question of modernism and its legacies. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Understanding Žižek, Understanding Modernism Jeffrey R. Di Leo (University of Houston, Victoria, USA) and Zahi Zalloua (Whitman College, US) Part I: Mapping Žižek 1. Lacan and Žižek on the Cogito and the Modern: Galileo, or Hegel?, Ed Puth 2. Žižek’s Hegel, our Hegel, Agon Hamza 3. Žižek and the (Chinese Dialectic of the) Revolution, Frank Ruda 4. Being Sexed: Žižek’s Modern Ontology, James Penney 5. Nil Actum Credens , Si Quid Superesset Agendum : or, Slavoj, Can’t You See I’m Burning? Žižek avec the Clusterfuck of 2020, Clint Burnham 6. What’s Wrong with Being Happy? Žižek’s Critique of Happiness, Jeffrey R. Di Leo Part II. A Leftist Plea for Modernism 7. Žižek avec Montaigne, Zahi Zalloua 8. Žižek and the Bartleby Paradox: I Would Prefer Not To ?, Cindy Zeiher 9. Hitchcock’s Modernist Hauntology, Laurence Simmons 10. Žižek’s Redemptive Reading of Richard Wagner’s Ambivalent Modernity, Erik Vogt 11. Žižek’s Critique of the Authoritarian Personality, Geoff Boucher 12. What Is Worth Salvaging In Modernity: A Realist Perspective From Non-Philosophical Marxism to Žižek’s Universalism...
