Tarrying with the negative : Kant, Hegel, and the critique of ideology
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Tarrying with the negative : Kant, Hegel, and the critique of ideology
（Post-contemporary interventions / series editors, Stanley Fish & Fredric Jameson）
Duke University Press, 1993
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Some copies have different pagination: vi, 289 p.
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In the space of barely more than five years, with the publication of four pathbreaking books, Slavoj Zizek has earned the reputation of being one of the most arresting, insightful, and scandalous thinkers in recent memory. Perhaps more than any other single author, his writings have constituted the most compelling evidence available for recognizing Jacques Lacan as the preemient philosopher of our time.
In Tarrying with the Negative, Zizek 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. Are we, Zizek asks, confined to a postmodern universe in which truth is reduced to the contingent effect of various discursive practices and where our subjectivity is dispersed through a multitude of ideological positions? No is his answer, and the way out is a return to philosophy. This revisit to German Idealism allows Zizek to recast the critique of ideology as a tool for disclosing the dynamic of our society, a crucial aspect of which is the debate over nationalism, particularly as it has developed in the Balkans-Zizek's home. He brings the debate over nationalism into the sphere of contemporary cultural politics, breaking the impasse centered on nationalisms simultaneously fascistic and anticolonial aspirations. Provocatively, Zizek argues that what drives nationalistic and ethnic antagonism is a collectively driven refusal of our own enjoyment.
Using examples from popular culture and high theory to illuminate each other-opera, film noir, capitalist universalism, religious and ethnic fundamentalism-this work testifies to the fact that, far more radically than the postmodern sophists, Kant and Hegel are our contemporaries.
Table 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
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