Zizek and Heidegger The Question Concerning Techno-Capitalism [Hardcover]

}i~ek and Heidegger offers a radical new interpretation of the work of Slavoj }i~ek, one of the world's leading contemporary thinkers, through a study of his relationship with the work of Martin Heidegger. Thomas Brockelman argues that }i~ek's oeuvre is largely a response to Heidegger's philosophy of finitude, an immanent critique of it which pulls it in the direction of revolutionary praxis. Brockelman also finds limitations in }i~ek's relationship with Heidegger, specifically in his ambivalence about Heidegger's techno-phobia. Brockelman's critique of }i~ek departs from this ambivalence - a fundamental tension in }i~ek's work between a historicist critical theory of techno-capitalism and an anti-historicist theory of revolutionary change. In addition to clarifying what }i~ek has to say about our world and about the possibility of radical change in it,}i~ek and Heideggerexplores the various ways in which this split at the center of his thought appears within it - in }i~ek's views on history or on the relationship between the revolutionary leader and the proletariat or between the analyst and the analysand.

Preface: Le Style Zizek and the Question of Finitude Part I: Zizek and Heidegger: The Alpha and the Omega 1. Thinking, Finitely: Zizek on Heidegger on Finitude 2. Zizek and the Other Heidegger: Technology and Danger Part II: Slowing Zizek Down: Modernity and Techno-Capitalism 3. Missing the Point: Slavoj Zizek on Perspective, Modernity and Subjectivity 4. The Techno-Capitalist Danger: Ideology and Contemporary Society Part III: The Split Subject of History 5. Splitting History: Zizek on Utopia and Revolution 6. The Pervert and the Philosopher (as witnessed by) the Theologian and the Analyst Bibliography