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Absolute Recoil

Towards A New Foundation Of Dialectical Materialism

Slavoj Zizek

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English
Verso
22 October 2014
"Philosophical materialism in all its forms - from scientific naturalism

to Deleuzian New Materialism - has failed to meet the key theoretical

and political challenges of the modern world. This is the burden of

philosopher Slavoj Zizek's argument in this pathbreaking and eclectic

new work. Recent history has seen developments such as quantum physics

and Freudian psychoanalysis, not to speak of the failure of

twentieth-century communism, shake our understanding of existence.

In

the process, the dominant tradition in Western philosophy lost its

moorings. To bring materialism up to date, Zizek - himself a committed

materialist and communist - proposes a radical revision of our

intellectual heritage. He argues that dialectical materialism is the

only true philosophical inheritor of what Hegel designated the

""speculative"" approach in thought.

Absolute Recoil is a

startling reformulation of the basis and possibilities of contemporary

philosophy. While focusing on how to overcome the transcendental

approach without regressing to naïve, pre-Kantian realism, Zizek offers a

series of excursions into today's political, artistic, and ideological

landscape, from Arnold Schoenberg's music to the films of Ernst

Lubitsch."

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Imprint:   Verso
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 235mm,  Width: 156mm,  Spine: 36mm
Weight:   844g
ISBN:   9781781686829
ISBN 10:   1781686823
Pages:   440
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Less Than Nothing, The Year of Dreaming Dangerously, Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, In Defense of Lost Causes, six volumes of the Essential Zizek, and many more.

Reviews for Absolute Recoil: Towards A New Foundation Of Dialectical Materialism

Few thinkers illustrate the contradictions of contemporary capitalism better than Slavoj Zizek ... one of the world's best-known public intellectuals. -- John Gray * New York Review of Books * A gifted speaker - tumultuous, emphatic, direct - and he writes as he speaks. -- Jonathan Ree * Guardian * A serious attempt to reanimate or re-actualize Hegel. -- Robert Pippin, author of Hegel's Idealism, on Less Than Nothing Like Socrates on steroids: Zizek is breathtakingly perceptive. -- Terry Eagleton


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