Preface
PART I: Life
1. Zizek's Intellectual Biography: Brutalism and Metaphysics, Dominik Finkelde
PART II: Contexts
2. Zizek and Neue Slowenische Kunst, Björn Quiring
3. Zizek's Poetry: Early Engagements with the Slovene Avant-Garde, Kaitlyn Sorenson
4. The Legacy of Poststructuralism, Marc De Kesel
5. On Finitude: Heidegger and Zizek, Thomas Brockelman
6. Enjoy! Neo-Capitalism and the Duty to Enjoy, Henrik Jøker Bjerre
7. Radical Democratic Theory: Laclau, Mouffe, Rancière, Butler, Oliver Flügel-Martinsen
8. The Legacy of Christianity, Rebekka A. Klein
9. Speculative Realism (Zizek and Meillassoux, Harman, and Gabriel), Daniel Sacilotto
10. Neuroscience, Cogito, and Consciousness, Glyn Daly
11. Justice, Law, and Violence, Hyun Kang Kim
12. The Ljubljana School: Imaginary Institution, Real Effects, Henrik Jøker Bjerre
PART III: Work 1 - Ideology Studies and Critical Theory
13. The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989), Dominik Finkelde
14. For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Political Factor (1991), Ed Pluth
15. Looking Awry (1991) and Enjoy Your Symptom! (1992), Joseph Carew
16. The Metastases of Enjoyment (1994), Joseph Carew
17. The Plague of Fantasies (1997), Coraly von Welser
18. Organs without Bodies (2004), Robert Sinnerbrink
PART IV: Work 2 - German Idealism and Psychoanalysis
19. The Most Sublime Hysteric (2014), Seraphin Frimmer
20. Tarrying with the Negative (1993), Martin Eleven
21. The Indivisible Remainder (1996), Joseph Carew
22. The Ticklish Subject (1999), Martin Eleven
23. The Parallax View (2006), Rex Butler
24. Less Than Nothing (2012), Reinhard Heil
25. Absolute Recoil (2014), Benedikt Wissing
26. Sex and the Failed Absolute (2019), Max Fesl
PART V: Work 3 - Religion and Christianity
27. The Fragile Absolute (2000), Rasmus Nagel
28. On Belief (2001), Rebekka A. Klein
29. The Puppet and the Dwarf (2003), Rasmus Nagel
30. The Monstrosity of Christ (2009), Marika Rose
PART VI: Work 4 - Radical Politics
31. Revolution at the Gates (2002), Paul Kellogg
32. The Political Suspension of the Ethical (2005), Simon Faets
33. In Defense of Lost Causes (2008), Mariana Schütt
34. "Enjoyment within the Limits of Reason Alone" (2001), Leonard Weiss
35. Violence: Six Sideways Reflections (2008), Hilary Neroni
PART VII: Work 5 - Film, Art, and Technology
36. The Fright of Real Tears (2001), Dany Nobus
37. The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime (2000), Marek Wieczorek
38. Antigone (2016), Matic Kocijancic
39. Hegel in a Wired Brain (2020), Dominik Finkelde
PART VIII: Themes and Leitmotifs
40. Initial Insights: In Praise of Early Zizek, Mladen Dolar
41. Topology and Logical Time: Zizek's Aesthetic of the Signifier, Andrew Cutrofello and Simon Hajdini
42. Parallax, Negativity, and Dialectical Materialism, Frank Ruda
43. Cosmogony Recapitulates Ontogeny, Adrian Johnston
44. Dialectics Contra Phenomenology, Todd McGowan
45. Postmodern Enjoyment, Matthew Flisfeder
PART IX: Philosophical Sources
46. Louis Althusser, Russell Sbriglia
47. Alain Badiou, Paul Livingston
48. Judith Butler, Paul Eisenstein
49. Jacques Derrida, Dominik Finkelde
50. Sigmund Freud, Dominik Finkelde
51. Georg W. F. Hegel, Robert Sinnerbrink
52. Martin Heidegger, Thomas Brockelman
53. Alfred Hitchcock, Hyun Kang Kim
54. Immanuel Kant, Dany Nobus
55. Jacques Lacan, Dominik Finkelde
56. Ernesto Laclau, Oliver Flügel-Martinsen
57. Vladimir I. Lenin, Paul Kellogg
58. David Lynch, Todd McGowan
59. Karl Marx, Sami Khatib
60. Quentin Meillassoux, Daniel Sacilotto
61. John Milbank, Marika Rose
62. Friedrich W. J. Schelling, Joseph Carew
PART X: Concepts
63. Act, Ed Pluth
64. Big Other, Dominik Finkelde
65. Chiasm, Moritz Kuhlmann
66. Christianity, Luca Di Blasi
67. Concrete Universality, Marc De Kesel
68. Death Drive, Dany Nobus
69. Desire/Drive, Henrik Jøker Bjerre
70. Enjoy!, Ed Pluth
71. Fantasy, Russell Sbriglia
72. Forced Choice, Rex Butler
73. God, Rasmus Nagel
74. Ideology, Sami Khatib
75. Interpellation, Mariana Schütt
76. Jouissance, Joseph Carew
77. Law, Dominik Finkelde
78. Master Signifier, Matthew Sharpe
79. Negativity, Reinhard Heil
80. Objet Petit a, Leonard Weiss
81. Parallax, Rex Butler
82. Phantasm, Marc De Kesel
83. Queer Theory, Chris Coffman
84. Real, Imaginary, Symbolic, Joseph Carew
85. Retroactivity, Seraphin Frimmer
86. Sinthome/Symptom, Dominiek Hoens
87. Split Subject, Thomas Brockelman
88. Sublime Objects (of Ideology), Matthew Sharpe
89. Substance (Is Subject), Dominik Finkelde
90. Thing, Joseph Carew
91. Unconscious, Tony Thwaites
92. Universal-Particular, Hilary Neroni
93. Vanishing Mediator, Tony Thwaites
94. Violence, Hyun Kang Kim
PART XI: Appendix
List of Contributors
Index
