On Zizek's Dialectics

Fabio Vighi is Senior Lecturer and co-director of the Zizek Centre for Ideology Critique at Cardiff University, UK. He is the author of Zizek: Beyond Foucault (2007, with Heiko Feldner), Sexual Difference in European Cinema (2008), and On 2ilek's Dialectics: Surplus, Subtraction, Sublimation (2010).

"In the guise of providing a commentary on the political implications of Slavoj Ziek philosophy, Vighi has made clear the precise contours of the link between theory and practice in an utterly original fashion. His book marks a major milestone in the history of thinking about politics." - Todd McGowan, University of Vermont, USA, author of The Real Gaze: Film Theory After Lacan "After completing Vighi's book on me, I felt a unique mixture of pleasure and anxiety, as if a double is haunting me, understanding me better than I understand myself, and noticing not only what I try to achieve, but also the weak spots in my theoretical edifice. Not to mention the fact that Vighi's book also stands on its own as a supreme example of a dialectical theory of ideology. Anyone who wants to understand how ideology functions in today's "post-ideological" era should follow closely Vighi's work!"- Slavoj Zilek "This is a wonderful book not only on 2iiek and his dialectics, but also about what the latter can inspire in terms of a further and most stunning reflection upon real, and really interesting, encounters between psychoanalysis and Marxism as generic name for emancipatory politics." - Alenka Zupanck, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenia... accessible and enjoyable. New Formations

• Introduction; Part I: The enjoyment of capitalism: surplus-jouissance and work; 1. The will to enjoyment; 2. Jouissance at arm's length; 3. From surplus-value to surplus-jouissance; 4. The unbearable lightness of being the proletariat; 5. Shame, subversion, and manual labour; 6. Karatani's wager; Excursus 1: Georges Bataille's potlach and the splendour of rags; Excursus 2: Silvio Berlusconi's enjoyment and related obscenities; Part II The surplus of thought: epistemology and dialectics; 7. From subject to a political subject; 8. Democracy under duress; 9. Dialectical materialism as parallax; 10. The vicissitudes of subtraction; 11. The invisible rabbit inside the hat; 12. 'Though this be madness, yet there is method in it'; Bibliography; Index.