Slavoj Zizek and Dialectical Materialism

Simon Hajdini, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Adrian Johnston, University of New Mexico, USA Victor Marques, Brazil Todd McGowan, University of Vermont, USA Robert Pfaller, University of Art and Industrial Design, Austria. Ed Pluth, California State University, Chico, USA Vladimir Safatle, University of São Paulo, Brazil Gabriel Tupinambá, Brazil Jan Völker, Institute of Fine Arts and Aesthetics at the Berlin University of the Arts, Germany Slavoj i ek, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

'A brilliant collection of essays not only on Zizek's most recent work, but on dialectical thought as such.' - Fabio Vighi, Professor of Italian and Critical Theory and Co-director of the i ek Centre for Ideology Critique, Cardiff University, UK

• 1. Introduction; Agon Hamza and Frank Ruda 2. Materialism Without Materialism: Slavoj Zizek and the Disappearance of Matter!; Adrian Johnston 3. The Althusserian Battleground; Robert Pfaller 4. The Necessity of an Absolute Misunderstanding: Why Hegel Has So Many Misreaders; Todd McGowan 5. From Hegel to Kant: The Thing-of-Itself German Idealism; Jan Volker 6. Politics of negativity in Slavoj Zizek: Actualizing Some Hegelian Themes; Vladimir Safatle 7. Dialectic at Its Impurest: Zizek's Materialism of Less Than Nothing; Simon Hajdini 8. Natural Worlds, Historical Worlds, and Dialectical Materialism; Ed Pluth 9. Positing the Presuppositions - Dialectical Biology and the Minimal Structure of Life; Victor Marques 10. Transferential Materialism: Toward a Theory of Formal Otherness; Gabriel Tupinamba 11. Dialectical Materialism and the Dangers of Aristotelianism; Frank Ruda 12. Going to One's Ground: Zizek's Dialectical Materialism; Agon Hamza 13. Afterword: Objects, Objects Everywhere; Slavoj Zizek