Sex and the Failed Absolute

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Sex and the Failed Absolute provides nothing short of a new definition of dialectical materialism. Radical new readings of Kant and Hegel sit side by side with lively commentaries on film, politics and culture. And in forging this new materialism, Žižek doesn’t shy away from taking on and analysising important recent philosophies such as the work of Alain Badiou, Robert Brandom, Quentin Meillassoux and everything from popular scientist and quantum mechanics to sexual difference and analytic philosophy. The book also It clarifies Žižek’s relation to Jacques Lacan while also giving an extensive view of his interpretation of Lacan’s difficult oeuvre. This is Slavoj Žižek at his interrogative and energising best and represents his most rigorous articulation to date of his philosophical system. Cover page Halftitle page Series page Title page Copyright page Dedication Contents Introduction The Unorientable Space of Dialectical Materialism Notes Theorem I The Parallax of Ontology Modalities of the Absolute Reality and Its Transcendental Supplement Varieties of the Transcendental in Western Marxism The Margin of Radical Uncertainty Notes Corollary 1 Intellectual Intuition and Intellectus Archetypus: Reflexivity in Kant and Hegel Intellectual Intuition from Kant to Hegel From Intellectus Ectypus toIntellectus Archetypus Notes Scholium 1.1 Buddha, Kant, Husserl Notes Scholium 1.2 Hegel’s Parallax Notes Scholium 1.3 The “Death of Truth” Theorem II Sex as Our Brush with the Absolute Antinomies of Pure Sexuation Sexual Parallax and Knowledge The Sexed Subject Plants, Animals, Humans, Posthumans Notes Corollary 2 Sinuosities of Sexualized Time Days of the Living Dead Cracks in Circular Time Notes Scholium 2.1 Schematism in Kant, Hegel . . . and Sex Notes Scholium 2.2 Marx, Brecht, and Sexual Contracts Notes Scholium 2.3 The Hegelian Repetition Notes Scholium 2.4 Seven Deadly Sins Note Theorem III The Three Unorientables Möbius Strip, or, the Convolutions of Concrete Universality The “Inner Eight” Suture Redoubled Cross-Capping Class Struggle From Cross-Cap to Klein Bottle A Snout in Plato’s Cave Notes Corollary 3 The Retarded God of Quantum Ontology The Implications of Quantum Gravity The Two Vacuums: From Less than Nothing to Nothing Is the Collapse of a Quantum Wave Like a Throw of Dice? Notes Scholium 3.1 The Ethical Möbius Strip Note Scholium 3.2 The Dark Tower of Suture Note Scholium 3.3 Suture and Hegemony Scholium 3.4 The World With(out) a Snout Notes Scholium 3.5 Towards a Quantum Platonism Notes Theorem IV The Persistence of Abstraction Madness, Sex, War How to Do Words with Things The Inhuman View The All-Too-Close In-Itself Notes Corollary 4 Ibi Rhodus Ibi Saltus! The Protestant Freedom Jumping Here and Jumping There Four Ethical Gestures Notes Scholium 4.1 Language, Lalangue Notes Scholium 4.2 Prokofiev’s Travels Notes Scholium 4.3 Beckett as the Writer of Abstraction Notes Index