The concept of disparity has long been a topic of obsession and argument for philosophers but Slavoj Žižek would argue that what disparity and negativity could mean, might mean and should mean for us and our lives has never been more hotly debated.
Disparities explores contemporary 'negative' philosophies from Catherine Malabou's plasticity, Julia Kristeva's abjection and Robert Pippin's self-consciousness to the God of negative theology, new realisms and post-humanism and draws a radical line under them. Instead of establishing a dialogue with these other ideas of disparity, Slavoj Žižek wants to establish a definite departure, a totally different idea of disparity based on an imaginative dialectical materialism. This notion of rupturing what has gone before is based on a provocative reading of how philosophers can, if they're honest, engage with each other. Slavoj Žižek borrows Alain Badiou's notion that a true idea is the one that divides. Radically departing from previous formulations of negativity and disparity, Žižek employs a new kind of negativity: namely positing that when a philosopher deals with another philosopher, his or her stance is never one of dialogue, but one of division, of drawing a line that separates truth from falsity.
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- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction: Is Hegel dead – or are we dead (in the eyes of Hegel)?
- PART ONE THE DISPARITY OF TRUTH: SUBJECT, OBJECT AND THE REST
- 1 From human to posthuman … and back to inhuman: The persistence of ontological difference
- 2 Objects, objects … and the subject
- 3 Self-consciousness, which self-consciousness? Against the renormalization of Hegel
- PART TWO THE DISPARITY OF BEAUTY: THE UGLY, THE ABJECT AND THE MINIMAL DIFFERENCE
- 4 Art after Hegel, Hegel after the end of art
- 5 Versions of abject: Ugly, creepy, disgusting
- 6 When nothing changes: Two scenes of subjective destitution
- PART THREE THE DISPARITY OF THE GOOD: TOWARDS A MATERIALIST NEGATIVE THEOLOGY
- 7 Tribulations of a woman-hyena: Authority, costume and friendship
- 8 Is god dead, unconscious, evil, impotent, stupid … or just counterfactual?
- 9 Ject or scend? From the traumatized subject to subject as trauma
- Conclusion: The courage of hopelessness
- Notes
- Index
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