At the outset of the twentieth century, Lenin argued that materialism has to change its form with each new scientific discovery. Today, argues Slavoj Zizek in this major new work, we should apply this stricture to Lenin himself. Philosophical materialism has not yet risen to the challenge of relativity theory and quantum physics, or breakthroughs like Freudian psychoanalysis-and we need hardly mention the failure of actually existing Communism.
In Absolute Recoil, Zizek proposes a new foundation for dialectical materialism that answers these fundamental challenges.
| ISBN: | 9781784781996 |
| Publication date: | 6th October 2015 |
| Author: | Slavoj Zizek |
| Publisher: | Verso |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 448 pages |
| Genres: |
Social and political philosophy Social theory Far-left political ideologies and movements |
At the outset of the twentieth century, Lenin argued that materialism has to change its form with each new scientific discovery. Today, argues Slavoj Zizek in this major new work, we should apply this stricture to Lenin himself.
Absolute Recoil features in the following genres: Social and political philosophy, Social theory, Far-left political ideologies and movements
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Absolute Recoil was written by Slavoj Zizek and published by Verso
Absolute Recoil has 448 pages
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