J7-6856 — Final report
1.
Incontinence of the void

Slavoj Žižek explores the empty spaces between philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the critique of political economy. He proceeds from the universal dimension of philosophy to the particular dimension of sexuality to the singular dimension of the critique of political economy. The passage from one dimension to another is immanent: the ontological void is accessible only through the impasses of sexuation and the ongoing prospect of the abolition of sexuality, which is itself opened up by the technoscientific progress of global capitalism, in turn leading to the critique of political economy.

COBISS.SI-ID: 2667655
2.
Hegel and Spinoza

Spinoza and Hegel, the paradigmatic philosophers of modernity, seem to form a clear­cut opposition between substance and negation. In this book, published with a renowned American publisher of continental philosophy and German classical philosophy, Gregor Moder tries to bring the two traditions in dialogue in order to produce new insights into history of philosophy and, first and foremost, the philosophy of history.

COBISS.SI-ID: 64823906
3.
Ordinary literature philosophy

This paper discusses the realtionschip between cultural studies and literary studies, and looks at the cultural studies as an alternative to literary studies. Taking into account Franco Moretti's reading, Habjan proposes a thesis on repolitization of this relationship.

COBISS.SI-ID: 40324141
4.
Economic freedom and growth across German districts

In this paper, members of the research team, Rok Spruk and Aleksandar Kešeljević, revisit the relationship between economic freedom and growth across 407 german districts (Kreise). They consider six indicators of economic freedom and place them into categories which reflect the tax rate and the size of the government and the public sector.

COBISS.SI-ID: 24099302
5.
Trouble in paradise

The book offers an explanation of how by drawing on the ideas of communism, we can find a way out of the crisis of capitalism. Setting out to diagnose the condition of global capitalism, the ideological constraints we are faced with in our daily lives, and the bleak future promised by this system, the author explores the possibilities ­ and the traps ­ of new emancipatory struggles.

COBISS.SI-ID: 2478727