ABSOLUTE RECOIL: TOWARDS A NEW FOUNDATION OF DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM by Slavoj Zizek - 2015

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First printing. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.5", shows light shelfwear. Binding is solid. Red mark appears across bottom edge of text block. Pages are clean and bright. viii/436 pages."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 Žižek'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, Žižek – 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… Read More

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