<div> <p>This book is the first volume to bring together the most prominent scholars who work on Slavoj Žižek's philosophy, examining and interrogating his understanding of dialectical materialism. It deserves to be thoroughly and systematically elaborated because it attempts to propose a new found
Slavoj Žižek and Dialectical Materialism
✍ Scribed by Agon Hamza, Frank Ruda (eds.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 201
- Category
- Library
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✦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction: The Absolute Revisited—Slavoj Žižek and Dialectical Materialism....Pages 1-2
Materialism without Materialism: Slavoj Žižek and the Disappearance of Matter....Pages 3-22
The Althusserian Battlegrounds....Pages 23-41
The Necessity of an Absolute Misunderstanding: Why Hegel Has So Many Misreaders....Pages 43-55
From Hegel to Kant: The Thing-of-Itself German Idealism....Pages 57-68
Politics of Negativity in Slavoj Žižek: Actualizing Some Hegelian Themes....Pages 69-84
Dialectic at Its Impurest: Žižek’s Materialism of Less Than Nothing....Pages 85-99
Natural Worlds, Historical Worlds, and Dialectical Materialism....Pages 101-112
Positing the Presuppositions—Dialectical Biology and the Minimal Structure of Life....Pages 113-132
Transferential Materialism: Toward a Theory of Formal Otherness....Pages 133-146
Dialectical Materialism and the Dangers of Aristotelianism....Pages 147-161
Going to One’s Ground: Žižek’s Dialectical Materialism....Pages 163-175
Afterword: Objects, Objects Everywhere....Pages 177-192
Back Matter....Pages 193-197
✦ Subjects
Philosophy, general; Political Philosophy; German Idealism; Philosophical Traditions
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