Sex and the Failed Absolute

Slavoj Zizek establishes a new definition of materialism critiquing everybody from Kant and Hegel to Alain Badiou and Quentin Meillassoux along the way

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In the most rigorous articulation of his philosophical system to date, Slavoj Zizek provides nothing short of a new definition of dialectical materialism.In forging this new materialism, Zizek critiques and challenges not only the work of Alain Badiou, Robert Brandom, Joan Copjec, Quentin Meillassoux, and Julia Kristeva (to name but a few), but everything from popular science and quantum mechanics to sexual difference and analytic philosophy. Alongside striking images of the Möbius strip, the cross-cap, and the Klein bottle, Zizek brings alive the Hegelian triad of being-essence-notion. Radical new readings of Hegel, and Kant, sit side by side with characteristically lively commentaries on film, politics, and culture.Here is Zizek at his interrogative best.

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INTRODUCTION: THE UNORIENTABLE SURFACE OF DIALECTICAL MATERIALISMTHEOREM I: THE PARALLAX OF ONTOLOGYModalities of the Absolute-Reality and Its Transcendental Supplement - Varieties of the Transcendental in Western Marxism - The Margin of Radical Uncertainty COROLLARY 1: INTELLECTUAL INTUITION AND INTELLECTUS ARCHETYPUS: REFLEXIVITY IN KANT AND HEGELIntellectual Intuition from Kant to Hegel-From Intellectus Ectypus to Intellectus Archetypus SCHOLIUM 1.1: BUDDHA, KANT, HUSSERLSCHOLIUM 1.2: HEGEL'S PARALLAXSCHOLIUM 1.3: THE "DEATH OF TRUTH" THEOREM II: SEX AS OUR BRUSH WITH THE ABSOLUTEAntinomies of Pure Sexuation-Sexual Parallax and Knowledge-The Sexed Subject - Plants, Animals, Humans, Posthumans COROLLARY 2: SINUOSITIES OF SEXUALIZED TIMEDays of the Living Dead - Cracks in Circular Time SCHOLIUM 2.1: SCHEMATISM IN KANT, HEGEL. AND SEXSCHOLIUM 2.2: MARX, BRECHT, AND SEXUAL CONTRACTSSCHOLIUM 2.3: THE HEGELIAN REPETITIONSCHOLIUM 2.4: SEVEN DEADLY SINS THEOREM III: THE THREE UNORIENTA BLESMöbius Strip, or, the Convolutions of Concrete Universality-The "Inner Eight"-(((Suture Redoubled)))-Cross-Capping Class Struggle-From Cross-Cap to Klein Bottle-A Snout in Plato's Cave COROLLARY 3: THE RETARDED GOD OF QUANTUM ONTOLOGYThe Implications of Quantum Gravity-The Two Vacuums: From Less than Nothing to Nothing - Is the Collapse of a Quantum Wave Like a Throw of Dice? SCHOLIUM 3.1: THE ETHICAL MOEBIUS STRIPSCHOLIUM 3.2: THE DARK TOWER OF SUTURESCHOLIUM 3.3: SUTURE AND HEGEMONYSCHOLIUM 3.4: THE WORLD WITH(OUT) A SNOUTSCHOLIUM 3.5: TOWARDS A QUANTUM PLATONISM THEOREM IV: THE PERSISTENCE OF ABSTRACTIONMadness, Sex, War- How to Do Words with Things-The Inhuman View - The All-Too-Close In-Itself COROLLARY 4: IBI RHODUS IBI SALTUS!The Protestant Freedom-Jumping Here and Jumping There-Four Ethical Gestures SCHOLIUM 4.1: LANGUAGE, LALANGUESCHOLIUM 4.2 - PROKOFIEV'S TRAVELSSCHOLIUM 4.3: BECKETT AS THE WRITER OF ABSTRACTION

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[This] is certainly the best organized and clearly structured of the author's "big" books . Zizek's writing style is much clearer (relatively speaking) than it was in earlier works and thus reflects the fact that many careless readers have (mis)read him simplistically . Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty. CHOICE