Absolute Recoil: Towards A New Foundation Of Dialectical Materialism, by Slavoj Zizek
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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.
Absolute Recoil: Towards A New Foundation Of Dialectical Materialism, by Slavoj Zizek- Amazon Sales Rank: #261395 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-06
- Released on: 2015-10-06
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.23" h x 1.25" w x 5.49" l, .81 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 448 pages
Review Praise for Slavoj Žižek:“The excitable fluency, ursine congeniality and gleeful readiness to provoke and offend all feed the sense of authentic sponanaeity and energy that has made Žižek somethig like European philosophy’s punk icon, packing out auditoriums around the world.”—Josh Cohen, New Statesman ““Few thinkers illustrate the contradictions of contemporary capitalism better than Slavoj Žižek ... one of the world’s best-known public intellectuals.”—John Gray, New York Review of Books “A gifted speaker—tumultuous, emphatic, direct—he writes as he speaks.”—Jonathan Rée, Guardian “Like Socrates on steroids ... breathtakingly perceptive.”—Terry EagletonFrom the Hardcover edition.
About the Author Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Less Than Nothing; The Year of Dreaming Dangerously; Living in the End Times; First as Tragedy, Then as Farce; In Defense of Lost Causes; six volumes of the Essential Žižek; and many more.
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful. Madness materialized By Ivo Maropo This is a very frustrating book. Not so much due to its difficulty (as already mentioned by others, it's probably easier than Less Than Nothing), but because it has effectively ruined my hopes of ever becoming a decent philosopher - much like, maybe, Hitchcock has ruined Zizek's own hopes of becoming a filmmaker.After having read both Less Than Nothing and this one (plus many of his other books), now I know I'm not up to the task of ever realizing my own dream (and Philosophy has always been my biggest inspiration in life). Whatever I do, Zizek is always infinitely ahead of me in both insight and knowledge.There is a fool among this book's reviewers who honestly believes to have a "supplement" for Zizek's Dialectical Materialism, but the poor bastard does not seem to know to what real extent (despite what he may think of himself) is Zizek a master of the "dialectical serpent", always ready to flex/bend its own muscles against its own structure, and successfully strike back (and with full force) its attacker.Resistance is indeed futile here. There are only bad critics of Zizek's work - and that even includes Adrian Johnston. Zizek seems to know everything there is to know by heart (and he always possess brilliant insights for everything he knows). I'm officially admiting defeat and leaving for the master the task of redefining what it means to be a philosophical materialist for the 21st century.Thanks for screwing with my lifelong dream, Slavoj. The more I have viciously studied you for the last 3 1/2 years, the more painfully clear it became to me that you are in a completely different level; an overall level of your own. Here, take your 5 stars.
18 of 30 people found the following review helpful. Delightful and Cathartic By Boris This book is cathartic for anyone who has been following Zizek along. In order to understand it, one absolutely needs to have read most of the Hegelian corpus (at the very least - Phenomenology & Logic), preceded by Kant and the idealists, the late Schelling not to be missed, Lacan - some Ecrits and a few key seminars would be good, and previous Zizek's works, especially - Less Than Nothing (but Indivisible Remainder and Parallax View are highly recommended). Also Zizek Ontology by Adrian Johnston would be of great help. Basic familiarity with Heidegger is also good, as is that with Deleuze and Althusser, not to mention Benjamin.With these under the belt, reading Absolute Recoil is a breeze and extremely pleasurable. Without them, in the words of Lacan in Kant avec Sade: Those of my readers who are in this virgin relationship to the Critique (of Practical Reason) of not having read it - please put this article down and come back to it after having read it. I don't believe one would be able to understand much of what the author is saying without having been plugged into the stream of his thought over the years. If one has, however, another delightful journey awaits and it is not to be missed.
8 of 16 people found the following review helpful. Herein lies Absolute Recoil By Keith D. Krugerud Zizek just keeps getting more refined with each book he writes. This latest work builds itself around such a low form of diction that any a layman can understand it, unlike, say, his first work, The Sublime Object of Ideology, which centers around a much more high and difficult form of diction, much of it from the very hard to understand psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. What if Zizek is continually going down his own path of conceiving the act of breaking itself (from a Philosophical View to a more poetic view) as the instance of a divine creation par excellence? From his earlier works, Zizek made and stated many of his consistent subject positions and now simply re-invokes them. Let us take for a present example: two ethical subjects who did what they wanted to do for their own sake and took full responsibility for their choices are the now beheaded journalist(s) and a mountaineer by ISIL radicals. Clearly, ISIL has, in a sense, justification for removing and not wanting journalists, who not only support their master-signifier, Journalism, but also report and expose things to the media that ISIL does not want to have revealed. But the removal of a mountaineer who only serves and follows his own master-signifier, that is, to seek the earth and satiate his soul? How is he a threat to ISIL? Could it be that he was as the poets were to Plato – a subject who has us become aware of the utter inadequacy of ISIL’s situation, just as the poet has us become aware of the inadequacy of Plato’s perfect Idea? So, what if Zizek, translating rather difficult philosophical diction into a more layman’s speech, is trying to have us all face the very gap of Zizekism? Is this not a case of having a low diction and high diction become their own oppositions? But what can be more beautiful than having everyone understand his ideas and increase the chance that one lucky madman/genius will encounter the very inadequacy within Zizek’s own theory? Only then will we experience a very radical New, one that entails ‘a return to Zizek’ and just maybe fulfilling Zizek’s own true (unconscious?) desire: the sublation, that is, the preservation and elevation of Zizek! Is this not the absolute recoil – a withdrawal from the Gap that creates the very gap always already finds itself withdrawing? To end, this book is excellent and very enjoyable, if not “surplus-enjoymentable” work!!!
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