Fragmenty denologii Slavoja Žižka
Fragments of Slavoj Žižek’s Dentology

Summary/Abstract: This article reconstructs the ontology of Slavoj Žižek’s last two philosophical books – Less Than Nothing and Absolute Recoil. It begins with an analysis of the concept (fundamental for the whole project) of the den, “less than nothing”, which comes from the philosophy of Democritus and was implemented by Žižek into the discourse of contemporary ontology. First, the article describes the structure of the den and tries to formulate its definition (which Žižek never did). Next, it outlines the scheme and function of the negative subject,which is the essential issue for Žižek’s dialectical materialism. Finally, it attempts to integrate the notion of subjectivity with the ontology of den (i.e. dentology) by using concepts from the Hegelian dialectic (the logic of “recoil” and “downward-synthesis”).

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