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Seeks to undermine the common presupposition by posing a provocative question: what if there is a subversive core of the Cartesian subject to be unearthed, a core which provides the indispensable philosophical point of reference of any genuinely emancipatory politics?

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Introduction: A Spectre Is Haunting Western Academia... (p. 1)
• Part I The 'Night of the World' (p. 7)
• 1 The Deadlock of Transcendental Imagination, or, Martin Heidegger as a Reader of Kant (p. 9)
• Heideggerian Political (Dis) Engagement
• Why Did Being and Time Remain Unfinished?
• The Trouble with Transcendental Imagination
• The Passage through Madness
• The Violence of Imagination
• The Monstrous
• Kant with David Lynch
• Kant's Acosmism
• 2 The Hegelian Ticklish Subject (p. 70)
• What Is 'Negation of Negation'?
• The Dialectical Anamorphosis
• 3, 4, 5
• The Speculative Identity of Substance and Subject
• The Hegelian Forced Choice
• 'Concrete Universality'
• 'Rather than want nothing ...'
• 'Include me out!'
• Towards a Materialist Theory of Grace
• Part II The Split Universality (p. 125)
• 3 The Politics of Truth, or, Alain Badiou as a Reader of St Paul (p. 127)
• The Truth-Event...
• ...and Its Undecidability
• Truth and Ideology
• St Paul with Badiou
• Between the Two Deaths
• The Lacanian Subject
• The Master or the Analyst?
• 4 Political Subjectivization and Its Vicissitudes (p. 171)
• Badiou, Balibar, Ranciere
• Hegemony and Its Symptoms
• Enter the Subject
• Why Are Ruling Ideas Not the Ideas of Those Who Rule?
• The Political and Its Disavowals
• The (Mis) Uses of Appearance
• Post-Politics
• Is There a Progressive Eurocentrism?
• The Three Universals
• Multiculturalism
• For a Leftist Suspension of the Law
• The Ambiguity of Excremental Identification
• Embracing the Act
• Part III From Subjection to Subjective Destitution (p. 245)
• 5 Passionate (Dis) Attachments, or, Judith Butler as a Reader of Freud (p. 247)
• Why Perversion Is Not Subversion
• Ideological Interpellation
• From Resistance to the Act
• 'Traversing the Fantasy'
• The Melancholic Double-Bind
• The Real of Sexual Difference
• Masochistic Deception
• From Desire to Drive ... and Back
• 6 Whither Oedipus? (p. 313)
• The Three Fathers
• The Demise of Symbolic Efficiency
• The Risk Society and Its Enemies
• The Unbehagen in the Risk Society
• It's the Political Economy, Stupid!
• Returns in the Real
• The Empty Law
• From Phallus to the Act
• Beyond the Good
• Index (p. 401)

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