This book is the first volume to bring together the most prominent scholars who work on Slavoj i ek's philosophy, examining and interrogating his understanding of dialectical materialism. It deserves to be thoroughly and systematically elaborated because it attempts to propose a new foundation for dialectical materialism.

1. Introduction; Agon Hamza and Frank Ruda 2. Materialism Without Materialism: Slavoj Zizek and the Disappearance of Matter!; Adrian Johnston 3. The Althusserian Battleground; Robert Pfaller 4. The Necessity of an Absolute Misunderstanding: Why Hegel Has So Many Misreaders; Todd McGowan 5. From Hegel to Kant: The Thing-of-Itself German Idealism; Jan Volker 6. Politics of negativity in Slavoj Zizek: Actualizing Some Hegelian Themes; Vladimir Safatle 7. Dialectic at Its Impurest: Zizek's Materialism of Less Than Nothing; Simon Hajdini 8. Natural Worlds, Historical Worlds, and Dialectical Materialism; Ed Pluth 9. Positing the Presuppositions - Dialectical Biology and the Minimal Structure of Life; Victor Marques 10. Transferential Materialism: Toward a Theory of Formal Otherness; Gabriel Tupinamba 11. Dialectical Materialism and the Dangers of Aristotelianism; Frank Ruda 12. Going to One's Ground: Zizek's Dialectical Materialism; Agon Hamza 13. Afterword: Objects, Objects Everywhere; Slavoj Zizek

'A brilliant collection of essays not only on Zizek's most recent work, but on dialectical thought as such.' - Fabio Vighi, Professor of Italian and Critical Theory and Co-director of the i ek Centre for Ideology Critique, Cardiff University, UK

'A brilliant collection of essays not only on Zizek's most recent work, but on dialectical thought as such.' - Fabio Vighi, Professor of Italian and Critical Theory and Co-director of the i ek Centre for Ideology Critique, Cardiff University, UK