Badiou, Žižek, and political transformations
Subtitle: the cadence of change
By: Adrian Johnston.
Series: Northwestern university studies in phenomenology and existential philosophy
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780810125698; 9780810125704
Subjects: Badiou, Alain; Žižek, Slavoj; Political science -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the Badiouian-Žižekian politburo; title: political interventions in the shadow of Lacan; title: Alain Badiou: from event to act; title: The quick and the dead: Badiou and the split speeds of transformation; title: One must have confidence that the other does not exist: select preconditions for events and acts in contemporary circumstances; title: Slavoj Žižek: from act to event; title: The cynic's fetish: Žižek and the dynamics of belief; title: From the spectacular act to the vanishing act: the politics of Lacanian theory; title: Appendix A: "Let a thousand flowers bloom!": some brief remarks on and responses to Zizek's "Badiou: notes from an ongoing debate"; title: Appendix B: Slavoj Žižek, "An answer to two questions".