Slavoj Žižek is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is the author of numerous books, including The Sublime Object of Ideology and Enjoy Your Symptom!.

"This new Zizek is as stunning as its predecessors, and breaks new philosophical ground. Not only to Kant and Hegel illuminate Lacan (and vice versa), mass culture and politics illuminate all of them, along with a bonus in an astonishing excursus on opera."-Fredric Jameson “Slavoj Žižek, the Giant of Ljubljana, . . . provides the best intellectual high since Anti-Oedipus.” - Scott Malcolmson (Voice Literary Supplement)

• Introduction 1I. Cogito: The Void Called Subject 1. "I or He or It (the Thing) Which Thinks" 92. Cogito and the Sexual Difference 45II. Ergo: The Dialectical Nonsequitur 3. On Radical Evil and Related Matters 834. Hegel's "Logic of Essence" as a Theory of Ideology 125III. Sum: The Loop of Enjoyment 5. "The Wound is Healed Only by the Spear That Smote You" 1656. Enjoy Your National As Yourself? 200Notes 239Index 287

Slavoj Žižek is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is the author of numerous books, including The Sublime Object of Ideology and Enjoy Your Symptom!.

"This new Zizek is as stunning as its predecessors, and breaks new philosophical ground. Not only to Kant and Hegel illuminate Lacan (and vice versa), mass culture and politics illuminate all of them, along with a bonus in an astonishing excursus on opera."-Fredric Jameson “Slavoj Žižek, the Giant of Ljubljana, . . . provides the best intellectual high since Anti-Oedipus.” - Scott Malcolmson (Voice Literary Supplement)

• Introduction 1I. Cogito: The Void Called Subject 1. "I or He or It (the Thing) Which Thinks" 92. Cogito and the Sexual Difference 45II. Ergo: The Dialectical Nonsequitur 3. On Radical Evil and Related Matters 834. Hegel's "Logic of Essence" as a Theory of Ideology 125III. Sum: The Loop of Enjoyment 5. "The Wound is Healed Only by the Spear That Smote You" 1656. Enjoy Your National As Yourself? 200Notes 239Index 287