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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Thinking creatively
What is Continental philosophy?
A distinguished company
Continental vs. Analytic philosophy
The value of logic
A shared history
Against repression
The limitations of theory
Into the unknown
Experience and the Self
The search for structure
Suspicion of universal truths
The fantasy of consciousness
The symbolic order
The Trojan horse of communication
The unconscious: a blind spot
The universal medium of exchange
“Incalculable relations”
“They do not know it, but they are doing it”
Kant and the unknowable
Kant’s Copernican revolution
The power of the new
Alterity: the Other
The sublime
Nietzsche’s verdict: God is dead
The death of metaphysics?
Metaphysics and language
A question of perspective
The spectre of nihilism
Absurd metaphysics
Kant withdraws
Metaphysics by the back door
The colonial “Other”
Re-thinking the unknown
The will to power
Love thy neighbour?
The birth of the Overman
Heidegger: the end of modernity?
The threat of technology
Hegel: history’s perfect conclusion
Masters and slaves
Being and Time
The problem with modernity
Dasein
The limits of understanding
Art as a sign of the end
The puzzle of Communism’s failure
The Frankfurt School
Consumption as desire
Oppositional art
Walter Benjamin and “high Capitalism”
Violence and the law
Striking against Capitalist logic
The power of montage
Alienation visible
The storm of progress
Further influence of Nietzsche
A philosophy of expenditure
The plenitude of excess
Fiction and reality in psychoanalysis
“I myself do not exist …
Sartre: Existentialism and authenticity
Nausea: the chaos behind language
Freedom of choice
Fighting terror with commitment
Existentialism and Marxism
1968: the watershed
Refusing fixed meaning
Collapse of the ideologies
Evental occurrences
The “trace” of Communism
Lyotard: the question of knowledge
Information overload
The limits of the mind
Rancière and the unheard voice
Derrida: the metaphysics of presence
Saussure’s limitless meanings
Deconstruction
Derrida the juggler
“Peut-être”
Thinking about friendship
Back to Nietzsche
Phallo-logocentrism
Woman cannot lack
Jouissance
A void in representation
The subject as producer
The private and the political
Producing producers
Biopolitics: multiple forces of power
Monitoring for normality
The terrorist state
Separating violence and the law
The power of language
“As if not”
Neither in heaven nor in hell
“I would prefer not to”
The black hole of the bourgeoisie
The alterity of death
Language at degree zero
Deleuze: “schizoanalysis”
Anti-Oedipus
The Metamorphosis: schizophrenic desire
The body without organs
Pure immanence
Casting off the shackles
Glossary
Further Reading
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Illustrator
Index
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