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Religion, Politics, and Dialectic (Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture)

By Slavoj Zizek (Edited by), Clayton Crockett (Edited by), Creston Davis (Edited by)

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Table of Contents

Preface: Hegel's CenturyAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Risking Hegel: A New Reading for the Twenty-First CenturyClayton Crockett and Creston Davis1. Is Confession the Accomplishment of Recognition? Rousseau and the Unthought of Religion in the Phenomenology of SpiritCatherine Malabou2. Rereading Hegel: The Philosopher of RightAntonio Negri3. The Perversity of the Absolute, the Perverse Core of Hegel, and the Possibility of Radical TheologyJohn D. Caputo4. Hegel in AmericaBruno Bosteels5. Infinite RestlessnessMark C. Taylor6. Between Finitude and Infinity: On Hegel's Sublationary InfinitismWilliam Desmond7. The Way of DespairKatrin Pahl8. The Weakness of Nature: Hegel, Freud, Lacan, and Negativity MaterializedAdrian Johnston9. Disrupting Reason: Art and Madness in Hegel and Van GoghEdith Wyschogrod10. Finite Representation, Spontaneous Thought, and the Politics of an Open-Ended ConsummationThomas Lewis11. Hegel and Shitting: The Idea's ConstipationSlavoj i ekList of ContributorsIndex

About the Author

Slavoj Zizek is a professor at the Institute for Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and at the European Graduate School, Switzerland. His many books include Democracy in What State?, Living in the End Times, and Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology. Clayton Crockett is associate professor and director of religious studies at the University of Central Arkansas. He is the author of Radical Political Theology: Religion and Politics After Liberalism and Interstices of the Sublime: Theology and Psychoanalytic Theory. Creston Davis is assistant professor of religion and philosophy at Rollins College. He is a coauthor (with John Milbank and Slavoj Zizek) of Paul's New Moment: Continental Philosophy and the Future of Christian Theology; a coeditor (with John Milbank and Slavoj Zizek) of Theology and the Political: The New Debate; and the editor of Slavoj Zizek and John Milbank's The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic?

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"This is a very strong collection of essays that go beyond the basic critical poles that have tended to divide Hegel's readers in recent years. Rather than assuming that we already know Hegel, the essays in this book approach Hegel as an infinitely complex and shifting set of ideas and texts that must be constantly re-read, insofar as those texts themselves continue to unfold new meanings through ongoing transformations in the history of philosophy and material culture, before and after Hegel." "These are exciting times for the student of Hegel. In place of a previously regnant understanding of the great philosopher, depicting him as an Absolute Idealist unable to comprehend difference, a staid liberal who walked away from his early enthusiasm for the French Revolution, we have a 'new' Hegel. The essays in this superb collection give us the lineaments of this latter Hegel, a Hegel who grappled unsparingly with difference, and whose systematicity allowed breaks and interruptions."

Reviews

A very strong collection of essays that goes beyond the critical poles that have tended to divide Hegel's readers in recent years. Rather than assuming we already know Hegel, these essays approach the philosopher as an infinitely complex and shifting set of ideas and texts that must be constantly reread, insofar as those texts continue to unfold new meanings through ongoing transformations in the history of philosophy and material culture, before and after Hegel. -- Kenneth Reinhard, University of California, Los Angeles These are exciting times for the student of Hegel. In place of a previously regnant understanding of the great philosopher, depicting him as an absolute idealist unable to comprehend difference, a staid liberal who walked away from his early enthusiasm for the French Revolution, we have a 'new' Hegel. This superb collection gives us the lineaments of this latter Hegel, who grappled unsparingly with difference and whose systematicity allowed breaks and interruptions. -- Kenneth Surin, Duke University