Zizek Studies

List of Figures - Acknowledgements - Editors' Introduction - David J. Gunkel: Zizek and the Real Hegel - Matthew Sharpe: Zizek's Kant, or The Crack in the Universal (Politicizing the Transcendental Turn) - Paul A. Taylor: Zizek's Brand of Philosophical Excess and the Treason of the Intellectuals: Wagers of Sin, Ugly Ducklings, and Mythical Swans - Robert Sinnerbrink: The Hegelian "Night of the World": Zizek on Subjectivity, Negativity, and Universality - Ola Sigurdson: Hermeneutic of Hope: Problematizing Zizek's Apocalypticism - Olivier Jutel: Barack Obama, the New Spirit of Capitalism and the Populist Resistance - Peter Bloom: Capitalism's Cynical Leviathan: Cynicism, Totalitarianism, and Hobbes in Modern Capitalist Regulation - Japhy Wilson: The Joy of Inequality: The Libidinal Economy of Compassionate Consumerism - Levi R. Bryant: Zizek's New Universe of Discourse: Politics and the Discourse of the Capitalist - Todd McGowan: Enjoying the Cinema - Graham Wolfe: Losing What We Never Had: Zizek and Lacan Rock On with Bryan Adams - Abigail Fagan: Interpellating Django: The Functions of the Gaze in Tarantino's Django Unchained - Vlad Dima: You Only Die Thrice: Zombies Revisited in The Walking Dead - Luke Howie: They Were Created by Man ... and They Have a Plan: Subjective and Objective Violence in Battlestar Galactica and the War on Terror - Notes on Contributors - Index.

David J. Gunkel is Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Communication at Northern Illinois University, USA. He is a founding editor of the International Journal of Zizek Studies .

Paul A. Taylor is Senior Lecturer in Communications Theory at the University of Leeds, UK. He is a founding editor of the International Journal of Zizek Studies .