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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 i ek 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, i ek 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 na ve, pre Kantian realism, i ek offers a series of excursions into today s political, artistic, and ideological landscape, from Arnold Schoenberg s music to the films of Ernst Lubitsch. Best Read Absolute Recoil by Slavoj Žižek For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr I think Adam Kotsko, of An und f r sich, got it about right with his recent comparison of i ek with Husserl In essence, i ek s procedure here is no different in principle from that of Husserl, who wrote and rewrote voluminous drafts and was continually introducing the project of transcendental phenomenology The one thing that has changed is that i ek is publishing his drafts as he goes Perhaps it would be better in some way if he would wait longer between publications, but you can t blam I think Adam Kotsko, of An und f r sich, got it about right with his recent comparison of i ek with Husserl In essence, i ek s procedure here is no different in principle from that of Husserl, who wrote and rewrote voluminous drafts an...Zizek s intro to this is fantastic Not marking it as a currently reading quite yet, but I highly endorse reading the 47 page intro to this for a nice bit of intellectual stokageZizek takes the failure of our understanding to be a stand in for the universal.In other words, he places our lack of understanding at very core of sense making.In Absolute Recoil, this idea takes on a different dimension Rather a specific aspect, a cut, a symbol, a sign or even nothing, is taken to be the formal point that mediates the self sublating that is absolute recoil It creation of whole worlds extends from the recoil of a thing from itself, as the worlds are the inhabitation of the Zizek takes the failure of our understanding to be a stand in for the universal.In other words, he places our lack of understanding at very core of sense making.In Absolute Recoil, this idea takes on a different dimension Rather a specific aspect, a cut, a symbol, a sign or even nothing, is taken to be the formal point that mediates the self sublating that is absolute ...i ek is marvelous to read This is his secret It really has to do w the pleasure of traveling along the vectors of his thought process He thinks in an electric, enticing, almost conversational manner It is following him that is pleasurable I am not a dialectical materialist At all I always said I liked the Lacanian i ek and not the Hegelian i ek This is absurd Part of a general disdain for Hegel which managed for a time to eclipse the fact that there is not Lacanian i ek indepen i ek is marvelous to read This is his secret It really has to do w the pleasure of traveling along the vectors of his thought process He thinks in an electric, enticing, almost conversational manner It is following him that is pleasurable I am not a dialectical materialist At all I always said I liked the Lacanian i ek and not the Hegelian i ek This is absurd Part of a general disdain for Hegel which managed for a time to eclipse the fact that there is not Lacanian i ek independent of the Hegelian They are absolutely one and the same The idea of castration in Lacan is obviously already...Thanks to my pal Ian for getting me this for my birthday I ve never read a full treatise of i ek s and was thrilled So thrilled, I started a group with folks to bounce ideas off of as we read the book I hate this book I honestly have almost no clue as to what the hell he s talking about or how it pertains to dialectical materialism i ek is all over the place and it s really hard to pin down his arguments because they wander so much The book also seemed to be apart of a longer philosophic Thanks to my pal Ian for getting me this for my birthday I ve never read a full treatise of i ek s and was thrilled So thrilled, I start...I think I liked some of the chapters in this book, or at least found the arguments entertaining to ponder, but it would take a lot longer to really unpack and understand each chapter before I could really say whether I agree with Zizek s conclusions, assumptions and reasoning I enjoy that his philosophy is very much a glass bead game of popular books and films, mainstream religions andobscure sources, tying together philosphy, music, literature, and science with lots of extra ornamentatio I think I liked some of the chapters in this book, or at least found the arguments entertaining to ponder, but it would take a lot longer to really unpack and understand each chapter before I could really say whether I agree with Zizek s conclusions, assumptions and reasoning I enjoy that his philosophy is very much a glass bead game of popular books and films, mainstream religions andobscure sources, tying together philosphy, music, literature, and science with lots of extra ornamentation to create a very modern sounding philosophy I found his essays in this book a bitlike practice puzzles, rather than practical philosophy, addressing sexuality, gender, and religious questions that are inherently masculine, and elitist, Western masculine Thus, while I can find the games in his essays interesting and fun, they feel very artificial Granted, mainstream philosphy is Western and male in our current society, still, so of course it is not surprising that...This book was really difficult for me, so I found on line an essay from the same author that, in a way, sums up the most important part of the book libro stato veramente difficile per me, quindi ho trov...Pretty much answers all the philosophical questions ever I thoroughly enjoyed it Lacking in following through with concrete suggestions for politics and life, though So I guess the philosophical question it doesn t directly answer is, how should we live Irregardless, I do feel like I understa...Maybe not the best starting point for Zizek, but I enjoyed it nevertheless I appreciate this great thinker The labor spent working through his ideas is worth the pay off.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 i ek 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 dom 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 i ek 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, i ek 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 ...

Absolute Recoil
  • 19 February 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 444 pages
  • 1781686823
  • Slavoj Žižek
  • Absolute Recoil