Less than nothing
Subtitle: Hegel and the shadow of dialectical materialism
By: Slavoj Žižek
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London, U.K
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1038
ISBN-13: 9781781681275
Subjects: Dialectical materialism
Description: For the last two centuries, Western philosophy has developed in the shadow of Hegel, whose influence each new thinker tries in vain to escape: whether in the name of the pre-rational Will, the social process of production, or the contingency of individual existence. Hegel's absolute idealism has become the bogeyman of philosophy, obscuring the fact that he is the dominant philosopher of the epochal historical transition to modernity; a period with which our own time shares startling similarities. Today, as global capitalism comes apart at the seams, we are entering a new transition. In Less Than Nothing, the pinnacle publication of a distinguished career, Slavoj Žižek argues that it is imperative that we not simply return to Hegel but that we repeat and exceed his triumphs,overcoming his limitations by being even more Hegelian than the master himself.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.