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A contemporary philosophical masterwork from one of the worlds 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 Zizeks 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 na?e, pre-Kantian realism, Zizek offers a series of excursions into todays political, artistic, and ideological landscape, from Arnold Schoenbergs music to the films of Ernst Lubitsch.

Author: Slavoj Zizek
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Verso
Published: 10/06/2015
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.2lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9781784781996
Language: English