Is philosophy the true enemy or the perfect accomplice of contemporary hegemonic ideology? Through the concept of indirectness, this collection edited by Krecic and Simoniti attempts to separate critical from complicit philosophy. Indirectness - introduced as a new concept in this volume by Jela Krecic - can be seen as the shibboleth of our time (as Pfaller puts it in his contribution). If we can recover the ability to be indirect - to take a detour through the other - we can save ourselves from the psychosis of a capitalist world that seeks to turn us into pure individuals and isolated identities. The topic of directness is approached by the greatest living philosophers in this volume. From Mladen Dolar's careful analysis of the indirectness present in wordplay, punning and humour that reminds the subject of the social nature of subjectivity to Catherine Malabou's proposal for a new political subject of indirectness to Alenka Zupancic's provocation that truth is indirect, the contributions to this volume use indirectness to blow open everything you thought you knew about philosophy, psychoanalysis and reality.