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Part I: On Althusser -- Contextualization -- Periodization -- Taking sides: Hegel or Spinoza? -- Structural Causality -- Althusser before Althusser: from Christianity to Communism -- Marxists' prehistory -- Proletariat of human condition versus the proletariat of labor -- Christian materialism -- Antiphilosophy -- Definition of ideology -- Epistemological break -- Interpellation -- State apparatuses -- Church as an ideological state apparatus -- Althusser's politics -- Part II: The Gospel According to Althusser -- Setting the stage -- Camera as an ideological apparatus -- Film as a commodity -- Representation -- The Christian reality -- Religious suspension of the theological -- Religious-political -- Class struggle -- Class struggle versus humanity -- The politics of religion -- Pasolini's political thought -- Conclusion: Marxism and films

Religion has always been an object of philosophical analysis, as well as a platform for political practice. One cannot imagine a form of philosophical thinking without its relation to a religion, whether it negates or affirms the latter. In different philosophical orientations, religion also serves as a condition for philosophy. This book intends not so much to fill a gap in Althusser scholarship as to make an important contribution to the contemporary radical left movement. In this regard, the book is of significant importance in the current debates on the Left concerning its relation to theology. It will also contribute to the ongoing debate on Althusser, as well as opening up a new perspective on his philosophical project

This paper addresses some of the philosophical and political challenges we face following two important events: 150 years after the publication of Das Kapital and 100 years after the Great Bolshevik Revolution. It begins with discussing these great events of the previous century to the insufficiency of socialism through an elaboration on the ways one can read Marx's critique of political economy as the most correct theoretical basis. It is at this conjuncture that we can outline a possible form which can succeed in breaking up the political and ideological deadlocks of contemporary capitalism.

Reading Marx: unexpected reunions -- Marx reads object-oriented-ontology -- Marx in the cave -- Imprinting negativity: Hegel reads Marx -- To resume (and not conclude)

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Trouble with Žižek -- PART I. PHILOSOPHY -- 1 "Freedom or System? Yes, Please!": How to Read Slavoj Žižek's Less Than Nothing- Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism -- 2 How to Repeat Plato? For a Platonism of the Non-All -- 3 Materialism between Critique and Speculation -- 4 Žižek's Reading Machine -- 5 The Shift of the Gaze in Žižek's Philosophical Writing -- 6 The Two Cats: Žižek, Derrida, and Other Animals -- PART II: PSYCHOANALYSIS -- 7 "Father, Don't You See I'm Burning?" Žižek, Psychoanalysis, and the Apocalypse -- Enjoy Your Truth: Lacan as Vanishing Mediator between Badiou and Žižek -- 9 The Discourse of the Wild Analyst -- 10 "Vers un Signifiant Nouveau": Our Task after Lacan -- 11 Mourning or Melancholia? Collapse of Capitalism and Delusional Attachments -- PART III. POLITICS -- 12 Žižek with Marx: Outside in the Critique of Political Economy -- 13 Žižek as a Reader of Marx, Marx as a Reader of Žižek -- 14 A Plea for Žižekian Politics -- PART IV. RELIGION -- 15 The Problem of Christianity and Žižek's "Middle Period" -- 16 Islam: How Could It Have Emerged after Christianity? -- Afterword. The Minimal Event: From Hystericization to Subjective Destitution -- Contributors -- Index