Introduction: the absolute revisited: Slavoj Žižek and dialectical materialism / Agon Hamza and Frank Ruda
Materialism without materialism: Slavoj Žižek and the disappearance of matter / Adrian Johnston
The Althusserian battlegrounds / Robert Pfaller
The necessity of an absolute misunderstanding: why Hegel has so many misreaders / Todd McGowan
From Hegel to Kant: the thing-of-itself German idealism / Jan Voelker
Politics of negativity in Slavoj Žižek: actualizing some Hegelian themes / Vladimir Safatle
Dialectic at its impurest: Žižek's materialism of less than nothing / Simon Hajdini
Natural worlds, historical worlds, and dialectical materialism / Ed Pluth
Positing the presuppositions: dialectical biology and the minimal structure of life / Victor Marques
Transferential materialism: toward a theory of formal otherness / Gabriel Tupinambá
Dialectical materialism and the dangers of Aristotelianism / Frank Ruda
Going to one's ground: Žižek's dialectical materialism / Agon Hamza
Afterword: objects, objects everywhere / Slavoj Žižek.
