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The Parallax View

Slavoj ˇ iˇek

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

ˇ iˇek, Slavoj.

The parallax view / Slavoj ˇ iˇek.

p. cm. — (Short circuits)

Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.

ISBN 0-262-24051-3 (alk. paper)

1. Philosophy. I.Title. II. Series.

B4870.Z593P37 2006

199 ′

2005051704

.4973—dc22

Contents

Series Foreword

I NTRODUCTION :D IALECTICAL M ATERIALISM AT THE G ATES

The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological

Difference

T HE S UBJECT ,T HIS “I NWARDLY C IRCUMCISED J EW ”

The Tickling Object • The Kantian Parallax • The Birth of (Hegelian) Concrete

Universality out of the Spirit of (Kantian) Antinomies • The Master-Signiﬁer

and Its Vicissitudes • Soave sia il vento... • The Parallax of the Critique of Political

Economy • “. . . ce seul objet dont le Néant s’honore”

B UILDING B LOCKS FOR A M ATERIALIST T HEOLOGY

A Boy Meets the Lady • Kierkegaard as a Hegelian • Die Versagung • The

Traps of Pure Sacriﬁce • The Difﬁculty of Being a Kantian • The Comedy

of Incarnation • Odradek as a Political Category • Too Much Life!

I NTERLUDE 1: K AT E ’ S C HOICE , OR ,T HE M ATERIALISM OF H ENRY J AMES

12 4

II The Solar Parallax: The Unbearable Lightness

of Being No One

145

T HE U NBEARABLE H EAVINESS OF B EING D IVINE S HIT

146

Burned by the Sun • Pick Up Your Cave! • Copernicus, Darwin, Freud...

and Many Others • Tow ard a New Science of Appearances • Resistances to

Disenchantment • When the God Comes Around • The Desublimated

Object of Post-Ideology • Danger? What Danger?

T HE L OOP OF F REEDOM

200

“Positing the Presuppositions” • A Cognitivist Hegel? • The False Opacity •

Emotions Lie, or, Where Damasio Is Wrong • Hegel, Marx, Dennett • From

Physics to Design? • The Unconscious Act of Freedom • The Language of

Seduction, the Seduction of Language

I NTERLUDE 2: OBJET PETIT A IN S OCIAL L INKS , OR ,T HE I MPASSES OF

A NTI -A NTI -S EMITISM

252

III The Lunar Parallax: Toward a Politics of

Subtraction

271

5F ROM S URPLUS -V ALUE TO S URPLUS -P OWER

272

Ontic Errance, Ontological Truth • Gelassenheit? No,Thanks! • Tow ard the Theory

of the Stalinist Musical • The Biopolitical Parallax • The Historicity of the Four

Discourses • Jouissance as a Political Category • Do We Still Live in a World?

6 HE O BSCENE K NOT OF I DEOLOGY , AND H OW TO U NTIE I T

330

The Academic Rumspringa ,or, the Parallax of Power and Resistance • Human

Rights versus the Rights of the Inhuman • Violence Enframed • The Ignorance

of the Chicken • Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Fundamentalism? • Over the

Rainbow Coalition! • Robert Schumann as a Theorist of Ideology • Welcome

to the Desert of the American Subculture • Of Eggs, Omelets, and Bartleby’s Smile

Notes

387

Index

431

introduction

Dialectical Materialism at the Gates

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