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Žižek, S. (1996) The Indivisible Remainder: An Essay on Schelhng and=====Book Description=====Related Matters, London and New York[[Image: Verso.This book forms part of a larger project for Žižek to reinvigoratethe reputation of German Idealism which, for him, constitutes thebedrock of all philosophy. His particular hope with this monograph isthat he enhances the perception of Schelling's Ages of the World as 'oneof the seminal works of materialism', divining in it a forerunner tothe works of Marx and Lacan among others. The first part of the bookendeavours to explain the Ages of the World, while the second partcompares the reception of Schelling's work with the reception ofHegel's work using Lacan as the key to both. As can be imagined fromhis brief description, the first two parts of this volume make a complexand demanding readIndivisible. The third part of the book (the 'related matters'of the title) is only relatively more accessible, but contains interestingdiscussions of both cyberspace and quantum physics which prefiguresome of Žižek's later workRemainder.jpg|300px|right]]
The feature which distinguishes the great works of materialist thought, from Lucretius’ ''De rerum natura'' through ''Capital'' to the writings of Lacan, is their unfinished character: again and again they tackle their chosen problem. Schelling’s ''Weltalter'' drafts belong to this same series, with their repeated attempt at the formulation of the ‘beginning of the world,’ of the passage from the pre-symbolic pulsation of the Real to the universe of logos. F.W.J. Schelling, the German idealist who for too long dwelled in the shadow of Kant and Hegel, was the first to formulate the post-idealist motifs of finitude, contingency and temporality. His unique work announces Marx's critique of speculative idealism, as well as the properly Freudian notion of drive, of a blind compulsion to repeat which can never be sublated in the ideal medium of language. ''The Indivisible Remainder'' begins with a detailed examination of the two works in which Schelling's speculative audacity reached its peak: his essay on human freedom and his drafts on the “Ages of the World.” After reconstituting their line of argumentation, Slavoj Zizek confronts Schelling with Hegel, and concludes by throwing a Schellingian light on some “related matters”: the consequences of the computerization of daily life for sexual experience; cynicism as today's predominant form of ideology; the epistemological deadlocks of quantum physics. Although the book is packed with examples from politics and popular culture — the unmistakable token of Zizek’s style — from Speed and ''Groundhog Day'' to ''Forrest Gump'', it signals a major shift towards a systematic concern with the basic questions of philosophy and the roots of the crisis of our late-capitalist universe, centred around the enigma of modern subjectivity. =====Product Details====={| style="width:100%; border:1px solid #aaa;text-align:left; line-height:2.0em; padding-left:10px;"|width="100%"| [[Slavoj Žižek|Zizek, Slavoj]]. '''''[[CategoryThe Indivisible Remainder:WorksAn Essay on Schelling and Related Matters]]'''''. London; New York: Verso, March 1996, Hardcover, 256 pages, Language: English, ISBN: 1859849598. <small>Buy it at [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1859849598/nosubject-20/ Amazon.com], [http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/1859849598/nosub07-20/ Amazon.ca], [Categoryhttp:Books//www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/1859849598/nosub-21/ Amazon.de], [http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1859849598/nosubjencyofl-21/ Amazon.co.uk]or [http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/1859849598/nosub04-21/ Amazon.fr]</small> or Verso. December 1996, Paperback, 248 pages, Language: English, ISBN: 1859840949. <small>Buy it at [Categoryhttp:Žižek//www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1859840949/nosubject-20/ Amazon.com], [http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/1859840949/nosub07-20/ Amazon.ca], [http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/1859840949/nosub-21/ Amazon.de], [Categoryhttp:Psychoanalysis//www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1859840949/nosubjencyofl-21/ Amazon.co.uk]or [http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/1859840949/nosub04-21/ Amazon.fr].</small>|} {{CBBSZ}}
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