In the most rigorous articulation of his philosophical system to date, Slavoj Zizek provides nothing short of a new definition of dialectical materialism.In forging this new materialism, Zizek critiques and challenges not only the work of Alain Badiou, Robert Brandom, Joan Copjec, Quentin Meillassoux, and Julia Kristeva (to name but a few), but everything from popular science and quantum mechanics to sexual difference and analytic philosophy. Alongside striking images of the Möbius strip, the cross-cap, and the Klein bottle, Zizek brings alive the Hegelian triad of being-essence-notion. Radical new readings of Hegel, and Kant, sit side by side with characteristically lively commentaries on film, politics, and culture.Here is Zizek at his interrogative best.

A genuinely new piece of philosophy dealt with rigour and seriousness

INTRODUCTION: THE UNORIENTABLE SURFACE OF DIALECTICAL MATERIALISMTHEOREM I: THE PARALLAX OF ONTOLOGYModalities of the Absolute-Reality and Its Transcendental Supplement - Varieties of the Transcendental in Western Marxism - The Margin of Radical UncertaintyCOROLLARY 1: INTELLECTUAL INTUITION AND INTELLECTUS ARCHETYPUS: REFLEXIVITY IN KANT AND HEGELIntellectual Intuition from Kant to Hegel-From Intellectus Ectypus to Intellectus ArchetypusSCHOLIUM 1.1: BUDDHA, KANT, HUSSERLSCHOLIUM 1.2: HEGEL'S PARALLAXSCHOLIUM 1.3: THE "DEATH OF TRUTH"THEOREM II: SEX AS OUR BRUSH WITH THE ABSOLUTEAntinomies of Pure Sexuation-Sexual Parallax and Knowledge-The Sexed Subject - Plants, Animals, Humans, PosthumansCOROLLARY 2: SINUOSITIES OF SEXUALIZED TIMEDays of the Living Dead - Cracks in Circular TimeSCHOLIUM 2.1: SCHEMATISM IN KANT, HEGEL. AND SEXSCHOLIUM 2.2: MARX, BRECHT, AND SEXUAL CONTRACTSSCHOLIUM 2.3: THE HEGELIAN REPETITIONSCHOLIUM 2.4: SEVEN DEADLY SINSTHEOREM III: THE THREE UNORIENTABLESMöbius Strip, or, the Convolutions of Concrete Universality-The "Inner Eight"-(((Suture Redoubled)))-Cross-Capping Class Struggle-From Cross-Cap to Klein Bottle-A Snout in Plato's CaveCOROLLARY 3: THE RETARDED GOD OF QUANTUM ONTOLOGYThe Implications of Quantum Gravity-The Two Vacuums: From Less than Nothing to Nothing - Is the Collapse of a Quantum Wave Like a Throw of Dice?SCHOLIUM 3.1: THE ETHICAL MOEBIUS STRIPSCHOLIUM 3.2: THE DARK TOWER OF SUTURESCHOLIUM 3.3: SUTURE AND HEGEMONYSCHOLIUM 3.4: THE WORLD WITH(OUT) A SNOUTSCHOLIUM 3.5: TOWARDS A QUANTUM PLATONISMTHEOREM IV: THE PERSISTENCE OF ABSTRACTIONMadness, Sex, War- How to Do Words with Things-The Inhuman View - The All-Too-Close In-ItselfCOROLLARY 4: IBI RHODUS IBI SALTUS!The Protestant Freedom-Jumping Here and Jumping There-Four Ethical GesturesSCHOLIUM 4.1: LANGUAGE, LALANGUESCHOLIUM 4.2 - PROKOFIEV'S TRAVELSSCHOLIUM 4.3: BECKETT AS THE WRITER OF ABSTRACTION