{"product_id":"absolute-recoil-isbn-9781784781996","title":"Absolute Recoil","description":"\u003cb\u003eA contemporary philosophical masterwork from “one of the world’s best-known public intellectuals ” (\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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 Hegel designated the “speculative” approach in thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbsolute Recoil\u003c\/i\u003e is a startling reformulation of the basis and possibilities of contemporary philosophy. While focusing on how to overcome the transcendental approach without regressing to naïve, pre-Kantian realism, Žižek offers a series of excursions into today’s political, artistic, and ideological landscape, from Arnold Schoenberg’s music to the films of Ernst Lubitsch.\u003cb\u003ePraise for Slavoj Žižek:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The excitable fluency, ursine congeniality and gleeful readiness to provoke and offend all feed the sense of authentic sponanaeity and energy that has made Žižek somethig like European philosophy’s punk icon, packing out auditoriums around the world.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Josh Cohen, \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ““Few thinkers illustrate the contradictions of contemporary capitalism better than Slavoj Žižek ... one of the world’s best-known public intellectuals.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—John Gray, \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A gifted speaker—tumultuous, emphatic, direct—he writes as he speaks.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Jonathan Rée, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Like Socrates on steroids ... breathtakingly perceptive.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Terry Eagleton\u003c\/b\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\u003eLess Than Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Year of Dreaming Dangerously\u003c\/i\u003e; \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; six volumes of the Essential Žižek; and many more.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301917249765,"sku":"NP9781784781996","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781784781996.jpg?v=1767720997","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/absolute-recoil-isbn-9781784781996","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}