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Abstract

2 Retrieving the Subject: Žižek’s Theoretical Politics 60 Introduction: Žižek’s Ticklish Subject 60 Žižek’s Criticism of ‘PostStructuralism’ 64 Changing the (Cartesian) Subject: Cogito, not Sum 74 From the Sublime to the Subject, Aesthetics to Politics 77 The Substance is Subject: The Inner Hegelian Kernel of Žižek’s Dialectics 79 Counting Ourselves in: Žižek’s Hegel 80 Concluding: The Subject of Politics 81