Hegel on Donald Trump’s “Objective Humor”

Hegel on Donald Trump's "Objective Humor"

What can we learn from Hegel on Donald Trump and his liberal critics? Quite a lot, surprisingly. In his critical account of Romantic irony, Hegel scathingly dismisses it as an exercise of empty negativity, of the vain subjectivity which perceives itself as elevated over every objective content, making fun of everything, caught in “the hither… Continue reading Hegel on Donald Trump’s “Objective Humor”

The philosopher who invented the word ‘idiosyncratic’, interview with Anja Steinbauer

Anja Steinbauer: So Professor Žižek – Slavoj Žižek: Don’t call me professor if you don’t want me to kill you. I feel so uneasy when someone calls me professor. Where is the professor? I have a deep problem with any official titles and so on. I’m not proud of it. When someone calls me professor I take it… Continue reading The philosopher who invented the word ‘idiosyncratic’, interview with Anja Steinbauer

Is Lacan An Anti-Philosopher? (2/3 – Slavoj Žižek) + transcript

[Transcript by Thomas Matthews below video.] Difficult to follow, I hope you hear me, glad to be here, glad to be with Alain. Of course in this 20 minute form it’s just a little bit too little time to really develop a line of thought- all one can do is more trace, define positions, oppositions,… Continue reading Is Lacan An Anti-Philosopher? (2/3 – Slavoj Žižek) + transcript

Complete Zizek bibliography

Books and co-authored books 2017. Slavoj Žižek. Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism. Allen Lane. In recent years, techno-scientific progress has started to utterly transform our world – changing it almost beyond recognition. In this extraordinary new book, renowned philosopher Slavoj Zizek turns to look at the brave… Continue reading Complete Zizek bibliography

The Sublime Object of Ideology (Preface)

The Sublime Object of Ideology

The Idea’s Constipation? When a discipline is in crisis, attempts are made to change or supplement its theses within the terms of its basic framework – a procedure one might call ‘Ptolemization’ (since when data poured in which clashed with Ptolemy’s earth-centred astronomy, his partisans introduced additional complications to account for the anomalies). But the… Continue reading The Sublime Object of Ideology (Preface)

The Universal Exception (Preface)

The Universal Exception

The big Other between violence and civility Slavoj Zizek   The ‘universal exception’, according to Lacan, is the fundamental feature of the symbolic order (the ‘big Other’) as the order of universality: each universality is grounded in its constitutive exception. This feature is to be supplemented with its no less paradoxical obverse, the so-called ‘not-All… Continue reading The Universal Exception (Preface)

A modest rejoinder

A modest rejoinder

Josh Cohen’s review of my last two books misrepresents my position so thoroughly that I think a short clarification is required. I prefer to disregard his resumé of my reading of Hegel which begins with a total nonsense: “Where, in the standard reading of Hegel, one element comes into conflict with another external to it,… Continue reading A modest rejoinder

The Absolute Recoil

[Abstract from Birkbeck:] Hegel is the ultimate bête noire of the last two centuries of philosophy:proponents of Lebensphilosophie, existentialists from Kierkegaard onwards, materialists, historicists, analytic philosophers and empiricists, Marxists, traditional liberals, religious moralists, deconstructionists and Deleuzians, they all define themselves through different modalities of rejecting Hegel. But when enemies start to speak the same language, it… Continue reading The Absolute Recoil

The Absolute Recoil (podcast)

Talk: http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/archive/audio/2013_05_10_BIH/2013_05_12_The%20Actuality%20of%20the%20Absolute_Slavoj%20Zizek_talk.mp3 Q&A: http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/archive/audio/2013_05_10_BIH/2013_05_12_The%20Actuality%20of%20the%20Absolute_Slavoj%20Zizek_questions.mp3 [Abstract from Birkbeck:] Hegel is the ultimate bête noire of the last two centuries of philosophy:proponents of Lebensphilosophie, existentialists from Kierkegaard onwards, materialists, historicists, analytic philosophers and empiricists, Marxists, traditional liberals, religious moralists, deconstructionists and Deleuzians, they all define themselves through different modalities of rejecting Hegel. But when enemies start to speak… Continue reading The Absolute Recoil (podcast)

I am not the world’s hippest philosopher! Interview with Katie Engelhart

Almost 25 years ago, philosopher Slavoj Žižek broke through the intellectual cul-de-sac of Slovenian academia — making his mark on the English-speaking world with “The Sublime Object of Ideology” (1989), a wily fusing of Lacanian psychoanalysis, Frankfurt School idealism, and reflections on the 1979 blockbuster horror flick “Alien.” Today, he’s everywhere. The notoriously unkempt “radical… Continue reading I am not the world’s hippest philosopher! Interview with Katie Engelhart