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In This Major New Work The Leading Philosopher Slavoj Žižek Argues That Philosophical Materialism Has Failed To Meet The Key Scientific, Theoretical And Political Challenges Of The Modern World, From Relativity Theory And Quantum Physics To Freudian Psychoanalysis And The Failure Of Twentieth-century Communism. To Bring Materialism Up To Date, Žižek Proposes A New Foundation For Dialectical Materialism. He Argues That Dialectical Materialism Is The Only True Philosophical Inheritor Of What Hegel Designates As The Speculative Approach Of Thought - All Other Forms Of Materialism Fail. In Absolute Recoil, Žižek Offers A Startling Reformulation Of The Ground And Possibilities Of Contemporary Philosophy-- Machine Generated Contents Note: Materialism, Old And New -- Against The Deflated Hegel -- The Disparity -- Dialectical Historicity -- Pt. I Beyond The Transcendental -- 1. Towards A Materialist Theory Of Subjectivity -- Kant Avec Althusser -- The Forced Choice Of Freedom -- The Anticipatory Subject -- 2. From Kant To Hegel -- The Ontic Question -- The Hegelian Move -- The Framed Frame -- 3. The Wound -- Getting Stuck -- The Fall -- The Anti-colonial Recoil -- The Violence Of The Begin

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Author

Slavoj Žižek

Publisher

Verso Books (US)

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781781686836

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Political Science, Social Science, Fiction

Rating

3.81 / 5 (131 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13