Absolute Recoil: Towards a New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism

Absolute Recoil: Towards a New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism - Paperback

$34.95
$34.95
Skip to product information
Absolute Recoil: Towards a New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism
  • Absolute Recoil: Towards a New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism
Absolute Recoil: Towards a New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism - Paperback

Absolute Recoil: Towards a New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism - Paperback

by Slavoj Zizek
$34.95
$34.95

Book Overview

by Slavoj Zizek (Author)

A contemporary philosophical masterwork from "one of the world's best-known public intellectuals " (New York Review of Books)

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.

Author Biography

Slavoj Žižek 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 Žižek; and many more.

Number of Pages: 448
Dimensions: 1.5 x 8.3 x 5.5 IN
Publication Date: October 06, 2015
ISBN9781784781996
Author Slavoj Zizek
PublisherVerso
GenreNews & politics and Philosophy
FormatPaperback
PublishedOctober 2015
LanguageENG- English
Pages448
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

Related Subjects

Nonfiction Philosophy Political Science

1% fer Each of the Seven Seas

Every purchase sends 7% of our profits to The Ocean Cleanup. No fine print, no opt-in — just how we sail.

Whoever Ye Be, Welcome Aboard

Queer lit, music, art, philosophy, fiction — stories for every kind of soul. Come as ye are, matey.

More by Slavoj Zizek

Comradely Greetings: The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj

Comradely Greetings: The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj - Paperback

Comradely Greetings: The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj - Paperback

By Slavoj Zizek and Nadezhda Tololonnikova

About Slavoj Zizek

Slavoj Zizek is a Hegelian philosopher, a Lacanian psychoanalyst, and a Communist. He is International Director at the Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK, Visiting Professor at the New York University, USA, and Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

You may also like