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Less Than Nothing: Hegel And The Shadow Of Dialectical Materialism
Slavoj Zizek
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Paperback. Slavoj A iA ek's masterwork on the Hegelian legacy. Num Pages: 1056 pages. BIC Classification: HPCD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 232 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1296.
For the last two centuries, Western philosophy has developed in the shadow of Hegel, whose influence each new thinker tries in vain to escape. As a consequence, Hegel's absolute idealism has become the bogeyman of philosophy, obscuring his dominance as the philosopher of the epochal historical transition to modernity. In Less Than Nothing, the pinnacle publication of a distinguished career, Slavoj A iA ek argues that it is imperative we not simply return to Hegel but we repeat and exceed his triumphs, overcoming his limitations by being even more Hegelian than the master himself. Such an approach ... Read more
For the last two centuries, Western philosophy has developed in the shadow of Hegel, whose influence each new thinker tries in vain to escape. As a consequence, Hegel's absolute idealism has become the bogeyman of philosophy, obscuring his dominance as the philosopher of the epochal historical transition to modernity. In Less Than Nothing, the pinnacle publication of a distinguished career, Slavoj A iA ek argues that it is imperative we not simply return to Hegel but we repeat and exceed his triumphs, overcoming his limitations by being even more Hegelian than the master himself. Such an approach ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Verso
Number of pages
1056
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
1056
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781681275
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V9781781681275
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About Slavoj Zizek
Slavoj A iA ek 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 Living in the End Times ; First as ... Read more
Reviews for Less Than Nothing: Hegel And The Shadow Of Dialectical Materialism
Few thinkers illustrate the contradictions of contemporary capitalism better than Slavoj A iA ek ... one of the world's best-known public intellectuals.
John Gray, New York Review of Books A serious attempt to reanimate or re-actualize Hegel.
Robert Pippin, author of Hegel's Idealism A gifted speaker
tumultuous, emphatic, direct
and he writes as he speaks. ... Read more
John Gray, New York Review of Books A serious attempt to reanimate or re-actualize Hegel.
Robert Pippin, author of Hegel's Idealism A gifted speaker
tumultuous, emphatic, direct
and he writes as he speaks. ... Read more