Absolute Recoil: Towards a New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism

by Slavoj Žižek

Book Overview

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 Zizek's argument in this pathbreaking and eclectic new work. Recent history...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784781991
• ISBN13: 9781784781996
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.5" x 8.3"