Repeating Žižek, Hamza Agon

Repeating ?i?ek offers a serious engagement with the ideas and propositions of philosopher Slavoj ?i?ek. Often subjecting ?i?eks work to a ?i?ekian analysis, this volumes contributors consider the possibility (or impossibility) of formalizing ?i?eks ideas into an identifiable philosophical system. They examine his interpretations of Hegel, Plato, and Lacan, outline his debates with Badiou, and evaluate the implications of his analysis of politics and capitalism upon Marxist thought. Other essays focus on ?i?eks approach to Christianity and Islam, his "sloppy" method of reading texts, his relation to current developments in neurobiology, and his theorization of animals. The book ends with an afterword by ?i?ek in which he analyzes Shakespeares and Becketts plays in relation to the subject. The contributors do not reach a consensus on defining a ?i?ekian school of philosophy—perhaps his idiosyncratic and often heterogeneous ideas simply resist synthesis—but even in their repetition of ?i?ek, they create something new and vital.

Contributors. Henrik Jøker Bjerre, Bruno Bosteels, Agon Hamza, Brian Benjamin Hansen, Adrian Johnston, Katja Kolšek, Adam Kotsko, Catherine Malabou, Benjamin Noys, Geoff Pfeifer, Frank Ruda, Oxana Timofeeva, Samo Tomšic, Gabriel Tupinambá, Fabio Vighi, Gavin Walker, Sead Zimeri, Slavoj ?i?ek