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Absolute Recoil: Towards A New Foundation Of Dialectical Materialism
Slavoj Žižek
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Paperback. Zizek's philosophical masterwork, now out in paperback Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPX; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 210 x 38. Weight in Grams: 558.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Verso Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784781996
SKU
V9781784781996
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About Slavoj Žižek
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Absolute Recoil: Towards A New Foundation Of Dialectical Materialism
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. ... Read more