{"product_id":"absolute-recoil-towards-a-new-foundation-of-dialectical-materialism","title":"Absolute Recoil: Towards A New Foundation Of Dialectical Materialism","description":"A contemporary philosophical masterwork from “one of the world’s best-known public intellectuals ” (New York Review of Books)\n\nPhilosophical 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.\n\nIn 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.\n\nAbsolute 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 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.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1784781991\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: HBSV.1784781991.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Zizek, Slavoj\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Book is in very good condition and has little to no writing, underlining, and or highlighting. Cover may have some cosmetic wear.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"The Happy Book Stack ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52344621269293,"sku":"HBSV.1784781991.VG","price":9.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0855\/6799\/6205\/files\/1784781991-0.jpg?v=1788554224","url":"https:\/\/www.thehappybookstack.com\/products\/absolute-recoil-towards-a-new-foundation-of-dialectical-materialism","provider":"The Happy Book Stack ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}