Sex and the Failed Absolute

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.

Slavoj Zizek is one of the world's leading contemporary cultural critics and a hugely prolific author. He is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, UK, and Visiting Professor at the New School for Social Research, New York, USA.

INTRODUCTION: THE UNORIENTABLE SURFACE OF DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM
THEOREM I: THE PARALLAX OF ONTOLOGY
Modalities of the Absolute-Reality and Its Transcendental Supplement - Varieties of the Transcendental in Western Marxism - The Margin of Radical Uncertainty
COROLLARY 1: INTELLECTUAL INTUITION AND INTELLECTUS ARCHETYPUS: REFLEXIVITY IN KANT AND HEGEL
Intellectual Intuition from Kant to Hegel-From Intellectus Ectypus to Intellectus Archetypus
SCHOLIUM 1.1: BUDDHA, KANT, HUSSERL
SCHOLIUM 1.2: HEGEL'S PARALLAX
SCHOLIUM 1.3: THE "DEATH OF TRUTH"
THEOREM II: SEX AS OUR BRUSH WITH THE ABSOLUTE
Antinomies of Pure Sexuation-Sexual Parallax and Knowledge-The Sexed Subject - Plants, Animals, Humans, Posthumans
COROLLARY 2: SINUOSITIES OF SEXUALIZED TIME
Days of the Living Dead - Cracks in Circular Time
SCHOLIUM 2.1: SCHEMATISM IN KANT, HEGEL... AND SEX
SCHOLIUM 2.2: MARX, BRECHT, AND SEXUAL CONTRACTS
SCHOLIUM 2.3: THE HEGELIAN REPETITION
SCHOLIUM 2.4: SEVEN DEADLY SINS
THEOREM III: THE THREE UNORIENTABLES
Möbius 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 Cave
COROLLARY 3: THE RETARDED GOD OF QUANTUM ONTOLOGY
The 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 STRIP
SCHOLIUM 3.2: THE DARK TOWER OF SUTURE
SCHOLIUM 3.3: SUTURE AND HEGEMONY
SCHOLIUM 3.4: THE WORLD WITH(OUT) A SNOUT
SCHOLIUM 3.5: TOWARDS A QUANTUM PLATONISM
THEOREM IV: THE PERSISTENCE OF ABSTRACTION
Madness, Sex, War- How to Do Words with Things-The Inhuman View - The All-Too-Close In-Itself
COROLLARY 4: IBI RHODUS IBI SALTUS!
The Protestant Freedom-Jumping Here and Jumping There-Four Ethical Gestures
SCHOLIUM 4.1: LANGUAGE, LALANGUE
SCHOLIUM 4.2 - PROKOFIEV'S TRAVELS
SCHOLIUM 4.3: BECKETT AS THE WRITER OF ABSTRACTION