Agon Hamza is a PhD candidate in philosophy at the Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU in Ljubljana, Slovenia. With Slavoj ¿i¿ek, he is the coauthor of From Myth to Symptom: The Case of Kosovo.

Acknowledgments  ix Introduction: The Trouble with Žižek / Agon Hamza 1 Part I. Philosophy  1. "Freedom or System? Yes, Please!": How to Read Slavoj Žižek's Less Than Nothing—Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism / Adrian Johnston 7 2. How to Repeat Plato?: For a Platonism of the Non-All / Frank Ruda 43 3. Materialism between Critique and Speculation / Samo Tomšic 58 4. Žižek's Reading Machine / Benjamin Noys 72 5. The Shift of the Gaze in Žižek's Philosophical Writing / Katja Kolšek 84 6. The Two Cats: Žižek, Derrida, and Other Animals / Oxana Timofeeva 100 Part II. Psychoanalysis 7. "Father, Don't You See I'm Burning?": Žižek, Psychoanalysis, and the Apocalypse / Catherine Malabou 113 8. Enjoy Your Truth: Lacan as Vanishing Mediator between Badiou and Žižek / Bruno Bosteels 127 9. The Discourse of the Wild Analyst / Henrik Jøker Bjerre and Brian Benjamin Hansen 146 10. "Vers un Significant Nouveau": Our Task after Lacan / Gabriel Tupinambá 159 11. Mourning or Melancholia? Collapse of Capitalism and Delusional Attachments / Fabio Vighi 180 Part III. Politics 12. Žižek with Marx: Outside in the Critique of Political Economy / Gavin Walker 195 13. Žižek as a Reader of Marx, Marx as a Reader of Žižek / Geoff Pfeifer 213 14. A Plea for Žižekian Politics / Agon Hamza 226 Part IV. Religion 15. The Problem of Christianity and Žižek's "Middle Period" / Adam Kotsko 243 16. Islam: How Could It Have Emerged After Christianity? / Sead Zimeri 256 Afterword. The Minimal Event: From Hystericization to Subjective Destitution / Slavoj Žižek 269 Contributors 287 Index 291