Parallax

Dominik Finkelde is Professor of Epistemology and Contemporary Philosophy at the Munich School of Philosophy. He publishes on contemporary philosophy and German Idealism, especially on Hegel, Kant, Lacan, Frege, Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Žižek and Badiou. Christoph Menke is Professor for Practical Philosophy at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. His research focuses on political and legal philosophy, theories of subjectivity, ethics and aesthetics. Slavoj Žižek is Professor at the Institute for Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and the International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London, UK. His recent publications include Hegel in a Wired Brain (2020), Sex and the Failed Absolute (2019), Disparities (2016), and Antigone (2016), all published by Bloomsbury.

Preface: Hegel and the Ethical Parallax, Slavoj Žižek

Introduction

Part 1: Parallax in Ontology
1. Parallactic Entanglement: On the Subject-Object-Relation in New Materialism and Adorno’s Critical Ontology, Dirk Quadflieg (University of Leipzig, Germany)

2. Žižek’s Parallax, or The Inherent Stupidity of All Philosophical Positions, Graham Harman (SCI-Arc, Los Angeles, USA)

3. How Mind fits into Nature. Mental Realism after Nagel, Markus Gabriel (University of Bonn, Germany)

4. Parallax in Hermeneutic Realism, Anton Friedrich Koch (University of Heidelberg, Germany)

5. Object-Disoriented Ontology. Realism in Psychoanalysis,Alenka Zupancic (Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenia)

6. Temporal Paradox, Realism, and Subjectivity, Paul Livingston (Albuquerque University, USA)

7. The Parallactic Leap: Fichte, Apperception, and the Hard Problem of Consciousness, G. Anthony Bruno (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)

8. The Parallax of Ontology: Reality and its Transcendental Supplement, Slavoj Žižek (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)

Part 2: Parallax in Normative Orders
9. Truth as Subjective Effect. Adorno or Hegel, Christoph Menke (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

10. Is Sex a Transcendental Category of Parallax? Revisiting the Feminist Second Wave, Nina Power (Roehampton University, UK)

11. The Irony of Self-Consciousness: Hegel, Derrida, and the Animal that therefore I am, Thomas Khurana (Yale University, USA)

12. A Squinting Gaze on the Parallax Between Spirit and Nature, Frank Ruda (University of Dundee, UK)

13. “I am nothing, but I make everything”: Marx, Lacan, and the Labor Theory of Suture, Adrian Johnston (University of New Mexico at Albuquerque)

Part 3: Parallax in Aesthetics
14. Drama as Philosophy. The Tragedy of the End of Art, Todd McGowan (University of Vermont, USA)

15. Parallaxes of Sinister Enjoyment: The Lessons of Interpassivity and the Contemporary Troubles with Pleasure, Robert Pfaller (University of the Arts, Linz, Austria)

16. Whiteheadian Aesthetics: On “Nautical Positionality” from a Process-Ontological Perspective, Eva Schürmann(University of Magdeburg, Germany)

17. Feeling at a Distance, or the Aesthetics of Unconscious Transmission, Tracy McNulty (Cornell University, USA)

18. The Dream That Knew Too Much. On Freud, Lacan, and Philip K. Dick, Dominik Finkelde (Munich School of Philosophy, Germany)

Notes on the contributors
Index of names
Index of subjects