Absolute Recoil: Towards A New Foundation Of Dialectical

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Absolute Recoil: Towards A New Foundation Of Dialectical Materialism

Philosophical materialism in all its forms â€“ from scientific naturalism to Deleuzian New Materialism â€“ has failed to meet the key theoretical and political challenges of the modern world. This is the burden of philosopher Slavoj ÂŽiÂžekâ€™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, ÂŽiÂžek â€“ himself a committed materialist and communist â€“ proposes a radical revision of our intellectual heritage. He argues that dialectical materialism is the only true philosophical inheritor of what Hegel designated the â€œspeculativeâ€ 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 naÃ¯ve, pre-Kantian realism, ÂŽiÂžek offers a series of excursions into todayâ€™s political, artistic, and ideological landscape, from Arnold Schoenbergâ€™s music to the films of Ernst Lubitsch.
Country USA
Brand Verso
Manufacturer Verso
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781784781996
Color Silver
ReleaseDate 2015-10-06
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EANs 9781784781996

Country	USA
Brand	Verso
Manufacturer	Verso
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781784781996
Color	Silver
ReleaseDate	2015-10-06
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781784781996

Absolute Recoil: Towards A New Foundation Of Dialectical Materialism

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