Sex and the Failed Absolute

Slavoj Žižek is a Hegelian philosopher, a Lacanian psychoanalyst, and a Communist. He is International Director at the Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK, Visiting Professor at the New York University, USA, and Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

[This] is certainly the best organized and clearly structured of the author's “big” books … Žižek's writing style is much clearer (relatively speaking) than it was in earlier works and thus reflects the fact that many careless readers have (mis)read him simplistically … Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.

• INTRODUCTION: THE UNORIENTABLE SURFACE OF DIALECTICAL MATERIALISMTHEOREM I: THE PARALLAX OF ONTOLOGYModalities of the Absolute—Reality and Its Transcendental Supplement – Varieties of the Transcendental in Western Marxism - The Margin of Radical UncertaintyCOROLLARY 1: INTELLECTUAL INTUITION AND INTELLECTUS ARCHETYPUS: REFLEXIVITY IN KANT AND HEGELIntellectual Intuition from Kant to Hegel—From Intellectus Ectypus to Intellectus ArchetypusSCHOLIUM 1.1: BUDDHA, KANT, HUSSERLSCHOLIUM 1.2: HEGEL’S PARALLAXSCHOLIUM 1.3: THE “DEATH OF TRUTH”THEOREM II: SEX AS OUR BRUSH WITH THE ABSOLUTEAntinomies of Pure Sexuation—Sexual Parallax and Knowledge—The Sexed Subject - Plants, Animals, Humans, PosthumansCOROLLARY 2: SINUOSITIES OF SEXUALIZED TIMEDays of the Living Dead – Cracks in Circular TimeSCHOLIUM 2.1: SCHEMATISM IN KANT, HEGEL… AND SEXSCHOLIUM 2.2: MARX, BRECHT, AND SEXUAL CONTRACTSSCHOLIUM 2.3: THE HEGELIAN REPETITIONSCHOLIUM 2.4: SEVEN DEADLY SINSTHEOREM III: THE THREE UNORIENTABLESMöbius Strip, or, the Convolutions of Concrete Universality—The “Inner Eight”—(((Suture Redoubled)))—Cross-Capping Class Struggle—From Cross-Cap to Klein Bottle—A Snout in Plato’s CaveCOROLLARY 3: THE RETARDED GOD OF QUANTUM ONTOLOGYThe Implications of Quantum Gravity—The Two Vacuums: From Less than Nothing to Nothing – Is the Collapse of a Quantum Wave Like a Throw of Dice?SCHOLIUM 3.1: THE ETHICAL MOEBIUS STRIPSCHOLIUM 3.2: THE DARK TOWER OF SUTURESCHOLIUM 3.3: SUTURE AND HEGEMONYSCHOLIUM 3.4: THE WORLD WITH(OUT) A SNOUTSCHOLIUM 3.5: TOWARDS A QUANTUM PLATONISMTHEOREM IV: THE PERSISTENCE OF ABSTRACTIONMadness, Sex, War— How to Do Words with Things—The Inhuman View – The All-Too-Close In-ItselfCOROLLARY 4: IBI RHODUS IBI SALTUS!The Protestant Freedom—Jumping Here and Jumping There—Four Ethical GesturesSCHOLIUM 4.1: LANGUAGE, LALANGUESCHOLIUM 4.2 - PROKOFIEV’S TRAVELSSCHOLIUM 4.3: BECKETT AS THE WRITER OF ABSTRACTION