Christianity or Communism? Žižek's Marxian Hegelianism and Hegelian Marxism
The work of Slavoj Žižek has long been known for its idiosyncratic superimposition of Lacanian, Hegelian, and Marxian themes. While Žižek’s re-elaboration of Lacan, and partly of Hegel, has attracted an enormous amount of critical attention, his appropriation of Marx remains relatively unexplored. I...
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| Định dạng: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
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2012
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Tóm tắt: | The work of Slavoj Žižek has long been known for its idiosyncratic superimposition of Lacanian, Hegelian, and Marxian themes. While Žižek’s re-elaboration of Lacan, and partly of Hegel, has attracted an enormous amount of critical attention, his appropriation of Marx remains relatively unexplored. In this paper, I intend to carry out a systematic analysis of the role played by Marx in relation to Hegel in two of Žižek recent writings. Initially, the authors in question appear to be, against all expectations, repeatedly opposed to each other, with conflicting results. On the one hand, Hegel’s philosophy of religion would be the only philosophy which allows us appropriately to approach the question concerning human nature and the related problem of freedom in a materialist way, while Marx’s critique of religion would propose a ‘direct dis-alienation’ that would ultimately rely on an idealist bias. On the other hand, Žižek’s own ‘communist hypothesis’ tacitly recuperates the early Marx’s notion of critique and, precisely in doing so, unveils a version of Hegelianism that is irreparably conservative. |
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