Absolute Recoil

Absolute Recoil
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Publisher : Verso Books
Total Pages : 449
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ISBN-10 : 9781781686829
ISBN-13 : 1781686823
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Synopsis Absolute Recoil by : Slavoj Zizek

A contemporary philosophical masterwork from “one of the world’s best-known public intellectuals ” (New York Review of Books) 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. In 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. Absolute 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.

Dialectical Materialism

Dialectical Materialism
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:802381717
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Synopsis Dialectical Materialism by : Henri Lefebvre

Less Than Nothing

Less Than Nothing
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Publisher : Verso Books
Total Pages : 1049
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ISBN-10 : 9781844678976
ISBN-13 : 1844678970
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis Less Than Nothing by : Slavoj Zizek

A thousand-page resurrection of Hegel, from the bestselling philosopher and critic who has been hailed as “one of the world’s best-known public intellectuals” (New York Review of Books) For the last two centuries, Western philosophy has developed in the shadow of Hegel, an influence each new thinker struggles to escape. As a consequence, Hegel’s absolute idealism has become the bogeyman of philosophy, obscuring the fact that he is the defining philosopher of the historical transition to modernity, a period with which our own times share startling similarities. Today, as global capitalism comes apart at the seams, we are entering a new period of transition. In Less Than Nothing—the product of a career-long focus on the part of its author—Slavoj Žižek argues it is imperative we not simply return to Hegel but that we repeat and exceed his triumphs, overcoming his limitations by being even more Hegelian than the master himself. Such an approach not only enables Žižek to diagnose our present condition, but also to engage in a critical dialogue with key strands of contemporary thought—Heidegger, Badiou, speculative realism, quantum physics, and cognitive sciences. Modernity will begin and end with Hegel.

Slavoj Zizek and Dialectical Materialism

Slavoj Zizek and Dialectical Materialism
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 153
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ISBN-10 : 9781137538611
ISBN-13 : 1137538619
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Synopsis Slavoj Zizek and Dialectical Materialism by : Agon Hamza

This book is the first volume to bring together the most prominent scholars who work on Slavoj i ek's philosophy, examining and interrogating his understanding of dialectical materialism. It deserves to be thoroughly and systematically elaborated because it attempts to propose a new foundation for dialectical materialism.

Karl Marx and the Intellectual Origins of Dialectical Materialism

Karl Marx and the Intellectual Origins of Dialectical Materialism
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 428
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ISBN-10 : 9780230374218
ISBN-13 : 0230374212
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis Karl Marx and the Intellectual Origins of Dialectical Materialism by : J. White

The book provides a genealogy of 'dialectical materialism' by tracing the development of Marxist ideas from their origins in German philosophical thought to the ideology of the social-democratic groups in Russia in the 1890s, from which Lenin and the revolutionary generation emerged. It reconstructs Marx's original conceptions and examines the modifications that were made to them by himself and by his Russian followers, which eventually gave rise to the doctrine of 'dialectical materialism', first expounded by Plekhanov.

Mao Zedong's On Contradiction

Mao Zedong's On Contradiction
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Total Pages : 53
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:633808227
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Synopsis Mao Zedong's On Contradiction by : Zedong Mao

The New Dialectic and Marx's Capital

The New Dialectic and Marx's Capital
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 271
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ISBN-10 : 9789004453524
ISBN-13 : 9004453520
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis The New Dialectic and Marx's Capital by : Chris Arthur

This book argues that the dialectic of Marx's Capital has a systematic, rather than historical, character. It sheds new light on Marx's great work, while going beyond it in many respects.

Dialectical Materialism and Modern Science

Dialectical Materialism and Modern Science
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Publisher : New York : International Publishers
Total Pages : 245
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ISBN-10 : 0717807088
ISBN-13 : 9780717807086
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis Dialectical Materialism and Modern Science by : Kenneth Neill Cameron

An insightful and extensive presentation on Marxist philosophy and science; body and mind; evolution and the search for life's purpose (1995).

Dialectical Materialism

Dialectical Materialism
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 230
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ISBN-10 : 9781315490151
ISBN-13 : 1315490153
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis Dialectical Materialism by : Zedong Mao

New and annotated translations of philosophical essays written by Mao Zedong in 1937, which have come to be regarded as a cornerstone in the development of Chinese Marxism. The editor analyzes their textual, philosophical and historical significance.

Dialectical Materialism

Dialectical Materialism
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Total Pages : 616
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ISBN-10 : UCAL:B4381931
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Synopsis Dialectical Materialism by : Ira Gollobin