Zizek Now

Dr. Jamil Khader, Professor of English and Dean of Research at Bethlehem University, Palestine.Molly Anne Rothenberg is professor of english at Tulane University.

"When reading some of Žižek’s more theoretical texts, we often feel that we understand his argument – well illustrated as it is through jokes and references to popular culture – but that there remains something that we feel unable to grasp (perhaps something ‘in Žižek more than himself’). This is the gap filled by Žižek Now : a near-comprehensive road map to Žižek’s more challenging and fascinating ideas"Information, Communication & Society"Though the Žižek-critique machine has by now begun to compete, in vigor and volume of output, with the Žižek-machine itself, this collection of essays, devoted to one of the foremost philosophers of our era, still stands out as exemplary. The various essays demonstrate deep appreciation and knowledge of the ever-expanding Žižek oeuvre and articulate strong, original interpretations of its development and repetitions."Joan Copjec,University of Buffalo"The wide-ranging scope and impressive eclecticism of this collection captures the dazzling spirit and dizzying letter of its topic: Žižek Now carries the innovative character and challenging symptoms of Slavoj Žižek’s theoretical achievement and political provocation.  Žižek Now offers a valuable commentary on what is best in Slavoj's thought."Costas Douzinas, Birkbeck University of London"Žižek Now will undoubtedly become a key text, not only for students who aim to politicize their socio-political and cultural engagement but also for any individuals wishing to orientate themselves in relation to the diverse but interdependent strands of Žižek's output."Tim Brennan, University of Sunderland

• Acknowledgments viiNotes on Contributors ixPart OneIntroduction: Žižek Now or Never: Ideological Critique and the Nothingness of BeingJamil Khader 31 Žižek’s Sublime Objects NowIan Parker 16Part Two2 Hegel as Marxist: Žižek’s Revision of German IdealismTodd McGowan 313 Žižek and Christianity: Or the Critique of Religion after Marx and FreudBruno Bosteels 544 Ceremonial Contingencies and the Ambiguous Rites of FreedomJoshua Ramey 84Part Three5 A Critique of Natural Economy: Quantum Physics with ŽižekAdrian Johnston 1036 Slavoj Žižek’s Eco-ChicVerena Andermatt Conley 1217 Žižek and Fanon: On Violence and Related MattersErik Vogt 1408 Žižek’s Infi delity: Lenin, the National Question, and the Postcolonial Legacy of Revolutionary InternationalismJamil Khader 159Part Four9 King, Rabble, Sex, and War in HegelSlavoj Žižek 177Index 207