Open AccessWhere Is the Rift? Marx, Lacan, Capitalism, and Ecology
Author(s) -
Slavoj Žižek
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
res publica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1989-6115
pISSN - 1576-4184
DOI - 10.5209/rpub.72079
Subject(s) - hegelianism , appropriation , dialectic , speculation , capitalism , epistemology , capital (architecture) , philosophy , neoclassical economics , alienation , sociology , political science , economics , history , law , politics , archaeology , macroeconomics
In this article it is proposed that the Hegelian dialectical matrix thus serves as the model of the logic of the capital as well as the model of its revolutionary overcoming. Therefore, the fundamental question arises: Which mode of relating to Hegel should an ecologically-oriented Marxism assume today? The Hegelian idealist speculation does not imply an absolute appropriation of nature –in contrast to productive appropriation, speculation lets its Other be, it doesn’t intervene into its Other.