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Absolute recoil : towards a new foundation of dialectical materialism
- Title
- Absolute recoil : towards a new foundation of dialectical materialism / Slavoj Žižek.
- Author
- Žižek, Slavoj.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Verso, 2014.
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- Summary
- "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"--
- Subject
- Call Number
- JFE 14-7511
- ISBN
- 9781781686829
- 1781686823
- LCCN
- 2014015284
- OCLC
- 2014015284
- Author
- Žižek, Slavoj.
- Title
- Absolute recoil : towards a new foundation of dialectical materialism / Slavoj Žižek.
- Publisher
- London ; New York : Verso, 2014.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 14-7511
