The Bloomsbury Handbook to Slavoj Žižek

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Judgements about the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek have been, like Žižek himself, extreme.

Critics accuse him of charlatanism, whilst others laude his genius. But beyond these antipodes of veneration and disdain, there is a third Žižek – a subtle and nuanced thinker who, like none other of his generation, has stimulated philosophical debates that radiate far beyond philosophy's borders into all disciplines of the humanities. Žižek has achieved this through both his radical materialist reinterpretation of German idealism, especially Hegel's legacy, and through a combination of Marxist critique with the philosophy of psychoanalysis as developed by Freud and Lacan. With this theoretical background, he has produced more than 50 books focused on classical questions of ontology, epistemology, the philosophy of subjectivity and cultural theory.

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Slavoj Žižek brings together internationally renowned philosophers whose work over the past three decades has engaged with, and been informed by, Žižek's philosophy. Its chapters introduce readers to his life, his works, and his theories.

Preface

PART I: Life
1. Žižek's Intellectual Biography: Brutalism and Metaphysics, Dominik Finkelde

PART II: Contexts
2. Žižek and Neue Slowenische Kunst, Björn Quiring
3. Žižek's Poetry: Early Engagements with the Slovene Avant-Garde, Kaitlyn Sorenson
4. The Legacy of Poststructuralism, Marc De Kesel
5. On Finitude: Heidegger and Žižek, Thomas Brockelman
6. Enjoy! Neo-Capitalism and the Duty to Enjoy, Henrik Jøker Bjerre
7. Radical Democratic Theory: Laclau, Mouffe, Rancière, Butler, Oliver Flügel-Martinsen
8. The Legacy of Christianity, Rebekka A. Klein
9. Speculative Realism (Žižek and Meillassoux, Harman, and Gabriel), Daniel Sacilotto
10. Neuroscience, Cogito, and Consciousness, Glyn Daly
11. Justice, Law, and Violence, Hyun Kang Kim
12. The Ljubljana School: Imaginary Institution, Real Effects, Henrik Jøker Bjerre
PART III: Work 1 – Ideology Studies and Critical Theory
13. The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989), Dominik Finkelde
14. For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Political Factor (1991), Ed Pluth
15. Looking Awry (1991) and Enjoy Your Symptom! (1992), Joseph Carew
16. The Metastases of Enjoyment (1994), Joseph Carew
17. The Plague of Fantasies (1997), Coraly von Welser
18. Organs without Bodies (2004), Robert Sinnerbrink

PART IV: Work 2 – German Idealism and Psychoanalysis
19. The Most Sublime Hysteric (2014), Seraphin Frimmer
20. Tarrying with the Negative (1993), Martin Eleven
21. The Indivisible Remainder (1996), Joseph Carew
22. The Ticklish Subject (1999), Martin Eleven
23. The Parallax View (2006), Rex Butler
24. Less Than Nothing (2012), Reinhard Heil
25. Absolute Recoil (2014), Benedikt Wissing
26. Sex and the Failed Absolute (2019), Max Fesl

PART V: Work 3 – Religion and Christianity
27. The Fragile Absolute (2000), Rasmus Nagel
28. On Belief (2001), Rebekka A. Klein
29. The Puppet and the Dwarf (2003), Rasmus Nagel
30. The Monstrosity of Christ (2009), Marika Rose

PART VI: Work 4 – Radical Politics
31. Revolution at the Gates (2002), Paul Kellogg
32. The Political Suspension of the Ethical (2005), Simon Faets
33. In Defense of Lost Causes (2008), Mariana Schütt
34. “Enjoyment within the Limits of Reason Alone” (2001), Leonard Weiss
35. Violence: Six Sideways Reflections (2008), Hilary Neroni

PART VII: Work 5 – Film, Art, and Technology
36. The Fright of Real Tears (2001), Dany Nobus
37. The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime (2000), Marek Wieczorek
38. Antigone (2016), Matic Kocijancic
39. Hegel in a Wired Brain (2020), Dominik Finkelde

PART VIII: Themes and Leitmotifs
40. Initial Insights: In Praise of Early Žižek, Mladen Dolar
41. Topology and Logical Time: Žižek's Aesthetic of the Signifier, Andrew Cutrofello and Simon Hajdini
42. Parallax, Negativity, and Dialectical Materialism, Frank Ruda
43. Cosmogony Recapitulates Ontogeny, Adrian Johnston
44. Dialectics Contra Phenomenology, Todd McGowan
45. Postmodern Enjoyment, Matthew Flisfeder

PART IX: Philosophical Sources
46. Louis Althusser, Russell Sbriglia
47. Alain Badiou, Paul Livingston
48. Judith Butler, Paul Eisenstein
49. Jacques Derrida, Dominik Finkelde
50. Sigmund Freud, Dominik Finkelde
51. Georg W. F. Hegel, Robert Sinnerbrink
52. Martin Heidegger, Thomas Brockelman
53. Alfred Hitchcock, Hyun Kang Kim
54. Immanuel Kant, Dany Nobus
55. Jacques Lacan, Dominik Finkelde
56. Ernesto Laclau, Oliver Flügel-Martinsen
57. Vladimir I. Lenin, Paul Kellogg
58. David Lynch, Todd McGowan
59. Karl Marx, Sami Khatib
60. Quentin Meillassoux, Daniel Sacilotto
61. John Milbank, Marika Rose
62. Friedrich W. J. Schelling, Joseph Carew

PART X: Concepts
63. Act, Ed Pluth
64. Big Other, Dominik Finkelde
65. Chiasm, Moritz Kuhlmann
66. Christianity, Luca Di Blasi
67. Concrete Universality, Marc De Kesel
68. Death Drive, Dany Nobus
69. Desire/Drive, Henrik Jøker Bjerre
70. Enjoy!, Ed Pluth
71. Fantasy, Russell Sbriglia
72. Forced Choice, Rex Butler
73. God, Rasmus Nagel
74. Ideology, Sami Khatib
75. Interpellation, Mariana Schütt
76. Jouissance, Joseph Carew
77. Law, Dominik Finkelde
78. Master Signifier, Matthew Sharpe
79. Negativity, Reinhard Heil
80. Objet Petit a, Leonard Weiss
81. Parallax, Rex Butler
82. Phantasm, Marc De Kesel
83. Queer Theory, Chris Coffman
84. Real, Imaginary, Symbolic, Joseph Carew
85. Retroactivity, Seraphin Frimmer
86. Sinthome/Symptom, Dominiek Hoens
87. Split Subject, Thomas Brockelman
88. Sublime Objects (of Ideology), Matthew Sharpe
89. Substance (Is Subject), Dominik Finkelde
90. Thing, Joseph Carew
91. Unconscious, Tony Thwaites
92. Universal-Particular, Hilary Neroni
93. Vanishing Mediator, Tony Thwaites
94. Violence, Hyun Kang Kim

PART XI: Appendix
List of Contributors
Index

Product details

Published	22 Jan 2026
Format	Ebook (PDF)
Edition	1st
Extent	648
ISBN	9781350402133
Imprint	Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Anthology Editor

Dominik Finkelde

Dominik Finkelde is Professor of Epistemology and…

If, as Hegel claimed, the task of philosophy is to grasp one's time in thought, no contemporary thinker has better discharged it than Slavoj Žižek who has, over the last four decades, provided the cognitive maps that have allowed us to orient ourselves amidst the political, economic, and cultural turbulence of the post-Cold War “order.” With his new Handbook to Slavoj Žižek , Dominik Finkelde has made it possible for readers to make full use of Zizek's extraordinary body of work. Composed of multiple sections written by a team of distinguished thinkers and dedicated to historical contexts, individual publications, intellectual influences, motifs, and concepts, the Handbook will guide and deepen our engagement with Zizek's thought for years to come.

Eric Santner, Philip and Ida Romberg Professor in Germanic Studies, University of Chicago, USA
Slavoj Žižek is famous for intertwining Lacan's psychoanalytic theories with the philosophical perspectives of Hegel, Marx, and others. And even more famous for bringing the whole alive with references from film, literature, art, and politics. This collection of essays from leading scholars is a must for making sense of it all.

Richard Boothby, Professor of Philosophy, Loyola University Maryland, USA