Party, State, Revolution: Critical Reflections on Zizek's Political Philosophy

Cover -- Introduction: More questions than answers? Žižek and the State -- Reloading Lenin (and Lacan) -- An Act Proper. Slavoj Žižek and the Persistence of Marxism -- The Philosophy and Politics of Slavoj Žižek -- The Normative Structure of Žižek's Leninist Project -- Communist Politics and The State -- Political Ontologies of the State. Žižek, Badiou, and the Idea of the Revolution from the Outside. -- Authentic Rebellion, Terroristic Institutionalization. On the Žižekian subject of the political -- Neo-communist Strategy and Revolutionary Warfare: Reflections on the Distinction between the Politics of Antagonism and the Logic of Hostility -- The Two Žižeks: The Performer and the Leninist -- Marxism After Marxism: Žižek Playing the Field -- The distance between Party and State. An outline of a Žižekian theory of the State -- On the authors

Slavoj ?i?ek is one of the most prominent public intellectuals of the left. This volume sets out to critically discuss ?i?ek's ideas, focusing especially on his conceptualisation of politics, political organisation and the (past, present and future) state.

Slavoj Zizek ist einer der prominentesten linken Intellektuellen. Der Sammelband lädt ein, Zizeks Ideen kritisch zu diskutieren, insbesondere sein Verständnis von Politik, politischen Organisationen und dem (vergangenen, gegenwärtigen und zukünftigen) Staat