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Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek have become two of the dominant voices in contemporary philosophy and critical theory. In this book, Geoff Pfeifer offers an in-depth look at their respective views. Using Louis Althusser's materialism as a starting point-which, as Pfeifer shows, was built partially as a response to the Marxism of the Parti Communiste Français and partially in dialogue with other philosophical movements and intellectual currents of its times-the book looks at the differing ways in which both Badiou's and Žižek's work attempt to respond to issues that arise within the Althusserian

Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek have become two of the dominant voices in contemporary philosophy and critical theory. In this book, Geoff Pfeifer offers an in-depth look at their respective views. Using Louis Althusser's materialism as a starting point-which, as Pfeifer shows, was built partially as a response to the Marxism of the Parti Communiste Français and partially in dialogue with other philosophical movements and intellectual currents of its times-the book looks at the differing ways in which both Badiou's and Žižek's work attempt to respond to issues that arise within the Althusserian.

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