{"product_id":"slavoj-zizek-absolute-recoil-2014-hardback","title":"Slavoj Zizek: Absolute Recoil [2014] hardback","description":"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 Zizek'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, Zizek - 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\u003eAbsolute 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 naive, pre-Kantian realism, Zizek offers a  series of excursions into today's political, artistic, and ideological  landscape, from Arnold Schoenberg's music to the films of Ernst  Lubitsch.","brand":"Zizek, Slavoj","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":54588652224851,"sku":"XV81781686829","price":11.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"New","offer_id":54588652257619,"sku":"9781781686829","price":26.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/zizek-slavoj-slavoj-zizek-absolute-recoil-2014-hardback-1254216092.jpg?v=1786740579","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/slavoj-zizek-absolute-recoil-2014-hardback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}