Repeating Žižek

Agon Hamza is a PhD candidate in philosophy at the Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU in Ljubljana, Slovenia. With Slavoj ¿ưi¿lek, he is the coauthor of From Myth to Symptom: The Case of Kosovo . Abstract: "Repeating Zi??ek"'s contributors read the influential and controversial Slavoj Zi??ek as a philosopher. They place his work in the Western philosophical tradition and analyze it using his own theses, concepts, and methods, all while attempting to formalize his thought into a philosophical school. Read more... Content: The trouble with Žižek / Agon Hamza -- Philosophy -- "Freedom or system" Yes, please!: how to read Slavoj Žižek's less than nothing, Hegel and the shadow of dialectical materialism / Adrian Johnston -- How to repeat Plato? for a platonism of the non-all / Frank Ruda -- Materialism between critique and speculation / Samo Tomsic -- Žižek's reading machine / Benjamin Noys -- The shift of the gaze in Žižek's philosophical writing / Katja Kolsek -- The two cats: Žižek, Derrida, and other animals / Oxana Timofeeva -- Psychoanalysis -- "Father, can't you see I'm burning?" Žižek, psychoanalysis, and the apocalypse / Catherine Malabou -- Enjoy your truth: Lacan as vanishing mediator between Badiou and Žižek/ Bruno Bosteels -- The discourse of the wild analyst / Henrik Joker Bjerre and Brian Benjamin Hansen -- "Vers un signifiant nouveau": our task after Lacan / Gabriel Tupinambá -- Mourning or melancholia? Collapse of capitalism and delusional attachments / Fabio Vighi -- Politics -- Žižek with Marx: outside in the critique of political economy / Gavin Walker -- Žižek as a reader of Marx, Marx as a reader of Žižek / Geoff Pfeifer -- A plea for Žižekan politics / Agon Hamza -- Religion -- The problem of christianity and Žižek's "middle period" / Adam Kotsko -- Islam: how could it have emerged after christianity? / Sead Zimeri -- Afterword the minimal event: from hystericization to subjective destitution / Slavoj Žižek. Repeating Žižek offers a serious engagement with the ideas and propositions of philosopher Slavoj Žižek. Often subjecting Žižek's work to a Žižekian analysis, this volume's contributors consider the possibility (or impossibility) of formalizing Žižek's ideas into an identifiable philosophical system. They examine his interpretations of Hegel, Plato, and Lacan, outline his debates with Badiou, and evaluate the implications of his analysis of politics and capitalism upon Marxist thought. Other essays focus on Žižek's approach to Christianity and Islam, his "sloppy" method of reading texts, his relation to current developments in neurobiology, and his theorization of animals. The book ends with an afterword by Žižek in which he analyzes Shakespeare's and Beckett's plays in relation to the subject. The contributors do not reach a consensus on defining a Žižekian school of philosophy—perhaps his idiosyncratic and often heterogeneous ideas simply resist synthesis—but even in their repetition of Žižek, they create something new and vital. Contributors. Henrik Jøker Bjerre, Bruno Bosteels, Agon Hamza, Brian Benjamin Hansen, Adrian Johnston, Katja Kolšek, Adam Kotsko, Catherine Malabou, Benjamin Noys, Geoff Pfeifer, Frank Ruda, Oxana Timofeeva, Samo Tomšic, Gabriel Tupinambá, Fabio Vighi, Gavin Walker, Sead Zimeri, Slavoj Žižek Repeating Zizek's contributors read the influential and controversial Slavoj Zizek as a philosopher. They place his work in the Western philosophical tradition and analyze it using his own theses, concepts, and methods, all while attempting to formalize his thought into a philosophical school. Agon Hamza is a PhD candidate in philosophy at the Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU in Ljubljana, Slovenia. With Slavoj ¿ưi¿lek, he is the coauthor of __From Myth to Symptom: The Case of Kosovo__. Abstract: