Disparities by Žižek, Slavoj -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Also Available from the Same Author Dedication Title Contents Introduction: Is Hegel dead – or are we dead (in the eyes of Hegel)?

When the Kraken wakes A report from the trenches of dialectical materialism

Aspects of disparity Against the univocity of being Posthuman, transhuman, inhuman Hyperobjects in the age of Anthropocene Biology or quantum physics?

2 Objects, objects … and the subject

Re-enchanting nature? No, thanks! A detour: Ideology in pluriverse On a subject which is not an object Resistance, stasis, repetition Speculative judgement The subject’s epigenesis

3 Self-consciousness, which self-consciousness? Against the renormalization of Hegel

In defence of Hegel’s madness The immediacy of mediation The stick in itself, for us, for itself Action and responsibility Recollection, forgiveness, reconciliation Healing the wound Self-consciousness = Freedom = Reason Reflexivity of the Unconscious

PART TWO THE DISPARITY OF BEAUTY: THE UGLY, THE ABJECT AND THE MINIMAL DIFFERENCE 4 Art after Hegel, Hegel after the end of art

With Hegel against Hegel The ugly gaze From the sublime to the monstrous Hegel’s path towards the nonfigurative Between Auschwitz and telenovelas

5 Versions of abject: Ugly, creepy, disgusting

Varieties of disavowal Traversing abjection ‘MOOR EEFFOC’ From abjective to creepy Mamatschi! Eisler’s sinthoms

6 When nothing changes: Two scenes of subjective destitution

The lesson of psychoanalysis Music as a sign of love A failed betrayal Scene from a happy life

Why Heidegger should not be criminalized The birth of fascism out of the spirit of beauty Don Carlos between authority and friendship Stalin as anti-Master Schiller versus Hegel The self-debased authority

8 Is god dead, unconscious, evil, impotent, stupid … or just counterfactual?

On divine inexistence Counterfactuals Retroactivity, omnipotence and impotence The twelfth camel as one of the names of god A truth that arises out of a lie The divine death drive The deposed god

9 Ject or scend? From the traumatized subject to subject as trauma

The parallax of drive and desire Immortality as death in life The troubles with finitude Materialism or agnosticism? A comical conclusion

Conclusion: The courage of hopelessness

The millenarian ‘exhalation of stale gas’ Divine violence The points of the impossible

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