{"product_id":"the-indivisible-remainder-isbn-9781844675814","title":"The Indivisible Remainder","description":"The feature which distinguishes the great works of materialist thought, from Lucretius’ \u003ci\u003eDe rerum natura \u003c\/i\u003ethrough \u003ci\u003eCapital \u003c\/i\u003eto the writings of Lacan, is their unfinished character: again and again they tackle their chosen problem. Schelling’s \u003ci\u003eWeltalter\u003c\/i\u003e drafts belong to this same series, with their repeated attempt at the formulation of the ‘beginning of the world,’ of the passage from the pre-symbolic pulsation of the Real to the universe of logos.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eF.W.J. Schelling, the German idealist who for too long dwelled in the shadow of Kant and Hegel, was the first to formulate the post-idealist motifs of finitude, contingency and temporality. His unique work announces Marx’s critique of speculative idealism, as well as the properly Freudian notion of drive, of a blind compulsion to repeat which can never be sublated in the ideal medium of language.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Indivisible Remainder \u003c\/i\u003ebegins with a detailed examination of the two works in which Schelling’s speculative audacity reached its peak: his essay on human freedom and his drafts on the “Ages of the World.” After reconstituting their line of argumentation, Slavoj Žižek confronts Schelling with Hegel, and concludes by throwing a Schellingian light on some “related matters”: the consequences of the computerization of daily life for sexual experience; cynicism as today’s predominant form of ideology; the epistemological deadlocks of quantum physics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlthough the book is packed with examples from politics and popular culture — the unmistakable token of Žižek’s style — from \u003ci\u003eSpeed\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGroundhog Day\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eForrest Gump,\u003c\/i\u003e it signals a major shift towards a systematic concern with the basic questions of philosophy and the roots of the crisis of our late-capitalist universe, centred around the enigma of modern subjectivity.“Žižek leaves no social or natural phenomenon untheorized, and is a master of the counter-intuitive observation.”—\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The most formidably brilliant exponent of psychoanalysis, indeed of cultural theory in general, to have emerged in some decades.”—Terry Eagleton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The Elvis of cultural theory.”—\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eSlavoj Žižek\u003c\/b\u003e is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include \u003ci\u003eLiving in the End Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFirst as Tragedy, Then as Farce\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIn Defense of Lost Causes\u003c\/i\u003e, four volumes of the Essential Žižek, and many more.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302727110885,"sku":"NP9781844675814","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781844675814.jpg?v=1767739929","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-indivisible-remainder-isbn-9781844675814","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}