ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that Slavoj Zizek's frequently evident and avowed Hegelianism notwithstanding—is finally grounded in his elevation of the Kantian category of "antinomy" as the grounding category of his imminent critique of ideology, and hence entire sociopolitical conjuncture. Zizek's further Lacanian contention is that subjects' "political enjoyment" is structured by "ideological fantasies". Zizek's first position on this question is a kind of Lacanian revamping of Kant's moral formalism. The key is Zizek's notion of the decentred subject. The form of political agency to which it corresponds is the radical act. Frankfurt School theorists already argued in their devastating critique of Kantian-"bourgeois" idealism, it is indeed difficult to see in this type of ethico-political formalism anything more than a recipe for political quietism. More troubling is how closely Kantian moral formalism reflects the predominant political logics of capitalism, which divide subjects between civil society and state, private capitalistic bourgeois and public liberal citoyen.
