Understanding Žižek, Understanding Modernism 1501367455, 9781501367458

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Acknowledgements

Introduction: Understanding Žižek, Understanding Modernism
Jeffrey R. Di Leo (University of Houston, Victoria, USA) and Zahi Zalloua (Whitman College, US)

Part I: Mapping Žižek

1. Lacan and Žižek on the Cogito and the Modern: Galileo, or Hegel?, Ed Puth

2. Žižek's Hegel, our Hegel, Agon Hamza

3. Žižek and the (Chinese Dialectic of the) Revolution, Frank Ruda

4. Being Sexed: Žižek's Modern Ontology, James Penney

5. Nil Actum Credens, Si Quid Superesset Agendum: or, Slavoj, Can't You See I'm Burning? Žižek avec the Clusterfuck of 2020, Clint Burnham

6. What's Wrong with Being Happy? Žižek's Critique of Happiness, Jeffrey R. Di Leo

Part II. A Leftist Plea for Modernism

7. Žižek avec Montaigne, Zahi Zalloua

8. Žižek and the Bartleby Paradox: I Would Prefer Not To?, Cindy Zeiher

9. Hitchcock's Modernist Hauntology, Laurence Simmons

10. Žižek's Redemptive Reading of Richard Wagner's Ambivalent Modernity, Erik Vogt

11. Žižek's Critique of the Authoritarian Personality, Geoff Boucher

12. What Is Worth Salvaging In Modernity: A Realist Perspective From Non-Philosophical
Marxism to Žižek's Universalism, Katerina Kolozova

13. Are We Human? Or, Posthumanism and the Subject of Modernity, Matthew Flisfeder

Part III: Glossary

14. Enjoyment, Todd McGowan

15. Ideology, Glyn Daly

16. Universality, Ilan Kapoorr

17. The Subject, Russell Sbriglia

18. Symptom, David J. Gunkel

19. Class, Matthew Bost

20. Violence, Oxana Timofeeva

21. The Death Drive, Zahi Zalloua

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