Absolute Recoil: Towards A New Foundation Of Dialectical

Absolute Recoil: Towards A New Foundation Of Dialectical Materialism

Philosophical materialism in all its forms â‚¬â€œ from scientific naturalism to Deleuzian New Materialism â‚¬â€œ has failed to meet the key theoretical and political challenges of the modern world. This is the burden of philosopher Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ekâ‚¬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, Å½iÅ¾ek â‚¬â€œ himself a committed materialist and communist â‚¬â€œ 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‚¬Å“speculativeâ‚¬Â 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 naÂ¯ve, pre-Kantian realism, Å½iÅ¾ek 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 Hardcover
ItemPartNumber black & white line drawings
Color Silver
ReleaseDate 2014-10-07
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
UPCs 884941404796
EANs 9781781686829

Country	USA
Brand	Verso
Manufacturer	Verso
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	black & white line drawings
Color	Silver
ReleaseDate	2014-10-07
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
UPCs	884941404796
EANs	9781781686829

Absolute Recoil: Towards A New Foundation Of Dialectical Materialism

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