Absolute Recoil: Towards a New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism - Paperback

by Slavoj Zizek (Author)

Argues that, in the face of the failures of philosophical materialism, the only way to keep up with the challenges of the modern world is to embrace dialectical materialism and provides a new foundation for the philosophy.

Author Biography

Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Less Than Nothing; The Year of Dreaming Dangerously; Living in the End Times; First as Tragedy, Then as Farce; In Defense of Lost Causes; six volumes of the Essential Žižek; and many more.