Less Than Nothing · Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism by Žižek, Slavoj -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Introduction: Eppur Si Muove PART I. THE DRINK BEFORE 1 “Vacillating the Semblances”

What cannot be said must be shown Idea’s appearing From fictions to semblances Dialectical gymnastics? No, thanks! From the One to den “Nothing exists” Gorgias, not Plato, was the arch-Stalinist!

2 “Where There Is Nothing, Read That I Love You”

A Christian Tragedy? The big Other The death of God The atheist wager “Do not compromise your desire” Lacan against Buddhism

3 Fichte’s Choice

From Fichte’s Ich to Hegel’s Subject The Fichtean wager Anstoss and Tat-Handlung Division and limitation The finite Absolute The posited presupposition The Fichtean bone in the throat The first modern theology

PART II. THE THING ITSELF: HEGEL 4 Is It Still Possible to Be a Hegelian Today?

Hegel versus Nietzsche Struggle and reconciliation A story to tell Changing the destiny The owl of Minerva Potentiality versus virtuality The Hegelian circle of circles

Interlude 1: Marx as a Reader of Hegel, Hegel as a Reader of Marx 5 Parataxis: Figures of the Dialectical Process

In praise of Understanding Phenomena, noumena, and the limit The differend Negation of the negation Form and content Negation without a filling

Interlude 2: Cogito in the History of Madness 6 “Not Only as Substance, but Also as Subject”

Concrete universality Hegel, Spinoza … and Hitchcock The Hegelian Subject Absolute Knowing The Idea’s constipation? The animal that I am

Interlude 3: King, Rabble, War … and Sex 7 The Limits of Hegel

A List Necessity as self-sublated contingency Varieties of self-relating negation The formal aspect Aufhebung and repetition From repetition to drive

PART III. THE THING ITSELF: LACAN 8 Lacan as a Reader of Hegel

The Cunning of Reason The Lacanian prosopopoeia Lacan, Marx, Heidegger The “magical force” of reversal Reflection and supposition Beyond intersubjectivity Drive versus Will The unconscious of self-consciousness

Interlude 4: Borrowing from the Future, Changing the Past 9 Suture and Pure Difference

From differentiality to the phallic signifier From the phallic signifier to objet a Sibelius’s silence The pure difference

Interlude 5: Correlationism and Its Discontents 10 Objects, Objects Everywhere

Subtraction, protraction, obstruction … destruction The objet a between form and content Voice and gaze The grandmother’s voice The Master and its specter The two sides of fantasy Image and gaze Presence “The picture is in my eye, but me, I am in the picture” Leave the screen empty!

Interlude 6: Cognitivism and the Loop of Self-Positing 11 The Non-All, or, the Ontology of Sexual Difference

Sexual difference in the disenchanted universe The real of sexual difference Formulae of sexuation: the All with an exception Formulae of sexuation: the non-All The antinomies of sexual difference Why Lacan is not a nominalist Negation of the negation: Lacan versus Hegel? “There is a non-relationship”

PART IV. THE CIGARETTE AFTER 12 The Foursome of Terror, Anxiety, Courage … and Enthusiasm

Being/World/Event Truth, inconsistency, and the symptomal point There is no human animal Badiou against Levinas From terror to enthusiasm Badiou and antiphilosophy

13 The Foursome of Struggle, Historicity, Will … and Gelassenheit

Why Lacan is not a Heideggerian Hegel versus Heidegger The torture-house of language An alternative Heidegger From will to drive The non-historical core of historicity From Gelassenheit to class struggle

14 The Ontology of Quantum Physics

The ontological problem Knowledge in the Real Agential realism The two vacuums Y’a de den

Conclusion: The Political Suspension of the Ethical