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  • ISBN13:9781781686829
  • ISBN10:1781686823
  • Publisher:Verso
  • Language:English
  • Author:Slavoj Zizek
  • Binding:Hardback
  • Sub Genre:Critical Theory
  • SUPC: SDL931904436

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"In this major new work the leading philosopher Slavoj 'Zi'zek argues that philosophical materialism has failed to meet the key scientific, theoretical and political challenges of the modern world, from relativity theory and quantum physics to Freudian psychoanalysis and the failure of twentieth-century Communism. To bring materialism up to date, 'Zi'zek proposes a new foundation for dialectical materialism. He argues that dialectical materialism is the only true philosophical inheritor of what Hegel designates as the speculative approach of thought - all other forms of materialism fail. In Absolute Recoil, 'Zi'zek offers a startling reformulation of the ground and possibilities of contemporary philosophy"--

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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 i[ek 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, i[ek 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 naive, pre-Kantian realism, i[ek offers a series of excursions into today s political, artistic, and ideological landscape, from Arnold Schoenberg s music to the films of Ernst Lubitsch."

Review Quotes

1. Praise for "Less Than Nothing"

"Few thinkers illustrate the contradictions of contemporary capitalism better than Slavoj Žižek ... one of the world's bestknown 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 reactualize Hegel." --Robert Pippin, author of "Hegel's Idealism"

2. Praise for "Less Than Nothing"
"Few thinkers illustrate the contradictions of contemporary capitalism better than Slavoj Žižek ... one of the world's bestknown 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 reactualize Hegel." --Robert Pippin, author of "Hegel's Idealism"

3. "Like Socrates on steroids ... breathtakingly perceptive." --Terry Eagleton
Praise for "Less Than Nothing"
"Few thinkers illustrate the contradictions of contemporary capitalism better than Slavoj Žižek ... one of the world's bestknown 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 reactualize Hegel." --Robert Pippin, author of "Hegel's Idealism"

4. Praise for Slavoji[ek:
The excitable fluency, ursine congeniality and gleeful readiness to provoke and offend all feed the sense of authentic sponanaeity and energy that has made i[ek somethig like European philosophy s punk icon, packing out auditoriums around the world.
Josh Cohen, "New Statesman"
Few thinkers illustrate the contradictions of contemporary capitalism better than Slavoj i[ek ... one of the world s best-known public intellectuals.
John Gray, "New York Review of Books"
A gifted speaker tumultuous, emphatic, direct he writes as he speaks.
Jonathan Ree, "Guardian"
Like Socrates on steroids ... breathtakingly perceptive.
Terry Eagleton"

5. Praise for Slavoji[ek:
The excitable fluency, ursine congeniality and gleeful readiness to provoke and offend all feed the sense of authentic sponanaeity and energy that has made i[ek somethig like European philosophy s punk icon, packing out auditoriums around the world.
Josh Cohen, New Statesman
Few thinkers illustrate the contradictions of contemporary capitalism better than Slavoj i[ek ... one of the world s best-known public intellectuals.
John Gray, New York Review of Books
A gifted speaker tumultuous, emphatic, direct he writes as he speaks.
Jonathan Ree, Guardian
Like Socrates on steroids ... breathtakingly perceptive.
Terry Eagleton"

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