Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism
"Few thinkers illustrate the contradictions of contemporary capitalism better than Slavoj Žižek … 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 writesas he speaks.” —Jonathan Ree,Guardian“The Hegel that Žižek loves is much like Žižek himself: a relentless iconoclast,a restless wordsmith, an inventive thinker with a hatred of received wisdom,an underminer of conventionally acknowledged truths. Žižek’s Hegel is a kindof cosmic prankster.”—Bookforum"A lucid rendering of modern society’s debt to Hegel."—Publisher’s Weekly"The publication ofLess Than Nothingis a major event in contemporary philosophy."—Hey, Small PressFrom the Trade Paperback edition.