Less Than Nothing

“I am writing a mega-book about Hegel. It is a true work of love. This is my true life’s work. Even Lacan is just a tool for me to read Hegel." —Slavoj Žižek

So that we can all be doing background reading before this Friday's overnight reading, we asked Slavoj Zizek which books influenced the writing of his Less Than Nothing. Here's the list (in no order):

Mourning Sickness: Hegel and the French Revolution - Rebecca Comay

The Future of Hegel: Plasticity, Temporality and Dialectic - Catherine Malabou

In the Spirit of Hegel - Robert C. Solomon

The Persistence of Subjectivity: On the Kantian Aftermath - Robert Pippin

Hegel Variations: On the Phenomenology of the Spirit—Fredric Jameson

L' envers de la dialectique: Hegel à la lumière de Nietzsche - Gerard Lebrun

Video: Alain Badiou and Michel Foucault in conversation

Two giants of French philosophy discuss psychology, Western culture and the Kantian turn in the history of philosophy in this hidden gem of a video. Michel Foucault is interviewed by Alain Badiou, the acclaimed author of many books including Pocket Pantheon, and the forthcoming The Adventure of French Philosophy (2012), which both engage with Foucault's thought.

The interview was originally recorded in 1965, and is now accompanied by English subtitles. With thanks to @thewarmjets and @demoboroi.

The Critique of Pure Reason By Immanuel Kant INTRODUCTION (audiobook)

Of the difference between Pure and Empirical Knowledge That all our knowledge begins with experience there can be no doubt. For how is it possible that the faculty of cognition should be awakened into exercise otherwise than by means of objects which affect our senses, and partly of themselves produce representations, partly rouse our powers of understanding into activity, to compare to connect, or to separate these, and so to convert the raw material of our sensuous impressions into a knowledge of objects, which is called experience? In respect of time, therefore, no knowledge of ours is antecedent to experience, but begins with it. But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.

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