At the outset of the twentieth century, Lenin argued that materialism has to change its form with each new scientific discovery. Today, argues Slavoj Zizek in this major new work, we should apply this stricture to Lenin himself. Philosophical materialism has not yet risen to the challenge of relativity theory and quantum physics, or breakthroughs like Freudian psychoanalysis--and we need hardly mention the failure of actually existing Communism. In Absolute Recoil, Zizek proposes a new foundation for dialectical materialism that answers these fundamental challenges.
- ISBN10 132213166X
- ISBN13 9781322131665
- Publish Date 1 January 2014
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 1 April 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Verso
- Format eBook
- Language English