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Slavoj Žižek. In Defense of Lost Causes
IN DEFENSE OF LOST CAUSES
Contents
Introduction: Causa Locuta, Roma Finita
1 Happiness and Torture in the Atonal World. Human, all too human
The screen of civility
Gift and exchange
Ulysses’ realpolitik
The atonal world
Serbsky Institute, Malibu
Poland as a symptom
Happy to torture?
2 The Family Myth of Ideology
“Capitalist realism”
The production of the couple in Hollywood . .
. . . and out
The real Hollywood Left
History and family in Frankenstein
A letter which did arrive at its destination
3 Radical Intellectuals Or, Why Heidegger Took the Right Step (Albeit in the Wrong Direction) in 1933. Hiding the tree in a forest
A domestication of Nietzsche
Michel Foucault and the Iranian event
The trouble with Heidegger
Ontological difference
Heidegger’s smoking gun?
Repetition and the New
From Heidegger to the drive
Heidegger’s “divine violence”
4 Revolutionary Terror from Robespierre to Mao “What do you want?”
Asserting the inhuman
Transubstantiations of Marxism
The limits of Mao’s dialectics
Cultural revolution and power
5 Stalinism Revisited Or, How Stalin Saved the Humanity of Man. The Stalinist cultural counter-revolution
A letter which did not reach its destination (and thereby perhaps saved the world)
Kremlinology
From objective to subjective guilt
Shostakovich in Casablanca
The Stalinist carnival . .
. . . in the films of Sergei Eisenstein
The minimal difference
6 Why Populism Is (Sometimes) Good Enough in Practice, but Not Good Enough in Theory
Good enough in practice . .
. . . but not good enough in theory
The “determining role of economy”: Marx with Freud
Drawing the line
The act
The Real
The vacuity of the politics of jouissance
7 The Crisis of Determinate Negation
The humorous superego . .
. . . and its politics of resistance
“Goodbye Mister Resisting Nomad”
Negri in Davos
Deleuze without Negri
Governance and movements
8 Alain Badiou Or, the Violence of Subtraction. Materialism, democratic and dialectical
Responses to the Event
Do we need a new world?
The lessons of the Cultural Revolution
Which subtraction?
Give the dictatorship of the proletariat a chance!
9 Unbehagen in der Natur. Beyond Fukuyama
From fear to trembling
Ecology against nature
The uses and misuses of Heidegger
What is to be done?
Afterword to the Second Edition: What Is Divine About Divine Violence?
Notes
Index
