Subject of Politics: Slavoj Žižek's Political Philosophy

In: Humanities Insights

Abstract

Intro -- Licence and Use -- Title Page -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- A Note on the Authors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Lacanian interventions: Psychoanalysis as a theory of society -- The unconscious -- Back to Lacan -- Discourse analysis or critique of ideology -- You remind me of Emmanuel Ravelli! -- Chapter 2. The ideological fantasm: Žižek's sociology -- We know very well… -- The mirror stage as critique of ideology -- Fetishism as a political form -- The two sides of the social bond -- Chapter 3. A world out of joint: Žižek's diagnosis of contemporary society -- The fall of the Father -- Nationalism and ethnic conflicts -- Multiculturalism and racism -- Terrorism and 11 September -- Chapter 4. The revolutionary subject: Žižek's ethical and political horizon -- I think not, therefore I am -- The Proletarian -- It is the economy, stupid! -- Postmodernism as the new ideological superstructure of capitalism -- St. Paul on the barricade -- Communism, of course! -- Chapter 5. Did somebody say totalitarianism: Žižek's critics. -- The rebellion against the father -- Passions of the real -- The useful idiot -- Bibliography.