Slavoj Žižek is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is a coeditor of Gaze and Voice as Love Objects and author of Tarrying with the Negative, both published by Duke University Press.

• Introduction: Cogito as Shibboleth 1Part I. Cogito as a Freudian Concept 1. Cogito as the Subject of the Unconscious / Mladen Dolar 112. The Subject of the Law / Alenka Zupančič 413. Four Discourses, Four Subjects / Slavoj Žižek 74Part II. Cogito's Body 4. The Case of Polyphemus, or, a Monster and Its Mother / Alain Grosrichard 1175. Malebranche's Occasionalism, or, Philosophy in the Garden of Eden / Miran Božovič 1496. The Silence of the Feminine Jouissance / Renata Salecl 175Part III. 7. A Sovereign's Anatomy: The Antique in Bataille's Modernity and Its Impact on His Political Thought / Marc de Kessel 1998. Negation and Its Reliabilities: An Empty Subject for Ideology? / Robert Pfaller 2259. The Cartesian Subject versus the Cartesian Theater / Slavoj Žižek 247Notes on Contributors 275Index 277

Slavoj Žižek is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is a coeditor of Gaze and Voice as Love Objects and author of Tarrying with the Negative, both published by Duke University Press.

• Introduction: Cogito as Shibboleth 1Part I. Cogito as a Freudian Concept 1. Cogito as the Subject of the Unconscious / Mladen Dolar 112. The Subject of the Law / Alenka Zupančič 413. Four Discourses, Four Subjects / Slavoj Žižek 74Part II. Cogito's Body 4. The Case of Polyphemus, or, a Monster and Its Mother / Alain Grosrichard 1175. Malebranche's Occasionalism, or, Philosophy in the Garden of Eden / Miran Božovič 1496. The Silence of the Feminine Jouissance / Renata Salecl 175Part III. 7. A Sovereign's Anatomy: The Antique in Bataille's Modernity and Its Impact on His Political Thought / Marc de Kessel 1998. Negation and Its Reliabilities: An Empty Subject for Ideology? / Robert Pfaller 2259. The Cartesian Subject versus the Cartesian Theater / Slavoj Žižek 247Notes on Contributors 275Index 277

Slavoj Žižek is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is a coeditor of Gaze and Voice as Love Objects and author of Tarrying with the Negative, both published by Duke University Press.

• Introduction: Cogito as Shibboleth 1Part I. Cogito as a Freudian Concept 1. Cogito as the Subject of the Unconscious / Mladen Dolar 112. The Subject of the Law / Alenka Zupančič 413. Four Discourses, Four Subjects / Slavoj Žižek 74Part II. Cogito's Body 4. The Case of Polyphemus, or, a Monster and Its Mother / Alain Grosrichard 1175. Malebranche's Occasionalism, or, Philosophy in the Garden of Eden / Miran Božovič 1496. The Silence of the Feminine Jouissance / Renata Salecl 175Part III. 7. A Sovereign's Anatomy: The Antique in Bataille's Modernity and Its Impact on His Political Thought / Marc de Kessel 1998. Negation and Its Reliabilities: An Empty Subject for Ideology? / Robert Pfaller 2259. The Cartesian Subject versus the Cartesian Theater / Slavoj Žižek 247Notes on Contributors 275Index 277