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=‘Absolute Recoil: Towards a New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism’ by Slavoj Žižek=

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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.</div>

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