Critics of Hindutva nationalism see it as either an elite conspiracy or a mass political movement with no necessary relation to the Hindu faith. I focus instead on its ideological deployment, treating it as a modern religious construction of Hinduism that legitimates capitalism—much like Christianity in the 17th and 18th century. I mobilize Slavoj Žižek, Erenesto Laclau, and Louis Althusser’s t...

Under the conviction that theories contend in a field of struggle which they confront each other, this work focuses on positions those who start and from Ernesto Laclau Slavoj Žižek stand out when building their theoretical-political devices. Along path, authors corroborate an inverse roadmap, since while starts intellectual history Marxism, he abandons his core categories proposes, instead, po...

Slavoj Žižek has made it his essential project to renew an understanding of G.W.F. Hegel’s subjectivity by means of the psychoanalytic theory and practice of Jacques Lacan. One crucial element in such an endeavor is Lacan’s notion of the lamella, a particular understanding of excessive desire as indestructible and exterior to the self. I would like to investigate Žižek’s characterization of the...