The Indivisible Remainder

On Schelling and Related Matters

Slavoj Zizek

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English

Verso Books
07 December 2006

Philosophy; Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900

Series: Radical Thinkers

"The feature which distinguishes the great works of materialist thought, from Lucretius' De rerum natura through Capital to the writings of Lacan, is their unfinished character: again and again they tackle their chosen problem. Schelling's Weltalter drafts belong to this same series, with their repeated attempt at the formulation of the 'beginning of the world,' of the passage from the pre-symbolic pulsation of the Real to the universe of logos. F.W.J. Schelling, the German idealist who for too long dwelled in the shadow of Kant and Hegel, was the first to formulate the post-idealist motifs of finitude, contingency and temporality. His unique work announces Marx's critique of speculative idealism, as well as the properly Freudian notion of drive, of a blind compulsion to repeat which can never be sublated in the ideal medium of language. The Indivisible Remainder begins with a detailed examination of the two works in which Schelling's speculative audacity reached its peak: his essay on human freedom and his drafts on the ""Ages of the World."" After reconstituting their line of argumentation, Slavoj Zizek confronts Schelling with Hegel, and concludes by throwing a Schellingian light on some ""related matters"": the consequences of the computerization of daily life for sexual experience; cynicism as today's predominant form of ideology; the epistemological deadlocks of quantum physics. Although the book is packed with examples from politics and popular culture - the unmistakable token of Zizek's style - from Speed and Groundhog Day to Forrest Gump, it signals a major shift towards a systematic concern with the basic questions of philosophy and the roots of the crisis of our late-capitalist universe, centred around the enigma of modern subjectivity."

By: Slavoj Zizek
Imprint: Verso Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 280g
ISBN: 9781844675814
ISBN 10: 1844675815
Series: Radical Thinkers
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 07 December 2006
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Slavoj Zizek is the author of The Sublime Object of Ideology, For They Know Not What They Do, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock), Enjoy Your Symptom!, The Metastases of Enjoyment, The Plague of Fantasies, Mapping Ideology, The Fragile Absolute: Or, Why Is the Christian Legacy Is Worth Fighting For?, and The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology.

Reviews for The Indivisible Remainder: On Schelling and Related Matters

Zizek leaves no social or natural phenomenon untheorized, and is a master of the counter-intuitive observation. * New Yorker * The most formidably brilliant exponent of psychoanalysis, indeed of cultural theory in general, to have emerged in some decades. -- Terry Eagleton The Elvis of cultural theory. * Chronicle of Higher Education *