There is no metalanguage; or, Truth has the structure of a fiction: The Žižekian system, between post-ideology and post-truth

Abstract

This article examines Slavoj Žižek’s overall approach to the critique of ideology. His Hegelian-Lacanian approach to ideology criticism is addressed by looking at the historical shift from the problem of post-ideology to that of post-Truth. In the process, this article explains simply Žižek’s brand of ideology criticism.

Keywords

• dialectic
• Hegel
• Lacan
• metalanguage
• post-ideology
• post-Truth