Slavoj Žižek. Truth and emancipation in the postmetaphysical age

Abstract

Over the last decade Slavoj Žižek has become one of the most significant thinkers of contemporary political philosophy. His work has renewed many classical philosophical arguments that postmodernist critic declared overcame: clash struggle, transcendental idealism, revolutionary violence, ideology or dialectical materialism. Žižek aspire to dissolve a set of aporias that arise not just as an intellectual puzzle but a threat to the conditions of possibility of philosophic program itself. Žižek intervention aims at the epistemological and political deadlock of the dying moments of the short twentieth century; an age marked by congruent tensions as globalization, postmodernism, multiculturalism, neoliberalism… This paper analyzes some of the main issues of zizekian political philosophy, specially his theory of ideology, his critic of subject and his restoration of Marxism.