Absolute Recoil - Towards A New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism
Author(s): Slavoj Zizek
At the outset of the twentieth century, Lenin argued that materialism has to change its form with each new scientific discovery. Today, argues Slavoj Zizek in this major new work, we should apply this stricture to Lenin himself. Philosophical materialism has not yet risen to the challenge of relativity theory and quantum physics, or breakthroughs like Freudian psychoanalysis--and we need hardly mention the failure of actually existing Communism. In Absolute Recoil, Zizek proposes a new foundation for dialectical materialism that answers these fundamental challenges.
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"Like Socrates on steroids ... breathtakingly perceptive." Terry Eagleton "Few thinkers illustrate the contradictions of contemporary capitalism better than Slavoj Zizek ... one of the world's best-known public intellectuals." John Gray (in praise of Less Than Nothing), New York Review of Books "A gifted speaker - tumultuous, emphatic, direct - and he writes as he speaks." Jonathan Ree (in praise of Less Than Nothing), Guardian "A serious attempt to reanimate or reactualize Hegel." Robert Pippin, author of Hegel's Idealism (in praise of Less Than Nothing)
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- : Verso Books
- : Verso Books
- : 0.367
- : 01 October 2015
- : 210mm X 140mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 November 2015
- : books
Special Fields
- : 448
- : 1512
- : Paperback
- : Slavoj Zizek