Disparities
FC -- Half title -- Also Available from the Same Author -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: Is Hegel dead – or are we dead (in the eyes of Hegel)? -- When the Kraken wakes -- A report from the trenches of dialectical materialism -- PART ONE THE DISPARITY OF TRUTH: SUBJECT, OBJECT AND THE REST -- 1 From human to posthuman … and back to inhuman: The persistence of ontological difference -- Aspects of disparity -- Against the univocity of being -- Posthuman, transhuman, inhuman -- Hyperobjects in the age of Anthropocene -- Biology or quantum physics? -- 2 Objects, objects … and the subject -- Re-enchanting nature? No, thanks! -- A detour: Ideology in pluriverse -- On a subject which is not an object -- Resistance, stasis, repetition -- Speculative judgement -- The subject's epigenesis -- 3 Self-consciousness, which self-consciousness? Against the renormalization of Hegel -- In defence of Hegel's madness -- The immediacy of mediation -- The stick in itself, for us, for itself -- Action and responsibility -- Recollection, forgiveness, reconciliation -- Healing the wound -- Self-consciousness = Freedom = Reason -- Reflexivity of the Unconscious -- PART TWO THE DISPARITY OF BEAUTY: THE UGLY, THE ABJECT AND THE MINIMAL DIFFERENCE -- 4 Art after Hegel, Hegel after the end of art -- With Hegel against Hegel -- The ugly gaze -- From the sublime to the monstrous -- Hegel's path towards the nonfigurative -- Between Auschwitz and telenovelas -- 5 Versions of abject: Ugly, creepy, disgusting -- Varieties of disavowal -- Traversing abjection -- 'MOOR EEFFOC' -- From abjective to creepy -- Mamatschi! -- Eisler's sinthoms -- 6 When nothing changes: Two scenes of subjective destitution -- The lesson of psychoanalysis -- Music as a sign of love -- A failed betrayal -- Scene from a happy life