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Introduction: Causa Locuta, Roma Finita

PART I The State of Things

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”

PART II Lessons from the Past

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 in Theory

Good enough in practice . . .—. . . but not good enough in theory—The “determining role of the economy”: Marx with Freud—Drawing the line—The act—The Real—The vacuity of the politics of jouissance

PART III What Is to Be Done?

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