Sex and the failed absolute
By: Slavoj  Žižek
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 481
ISBN-13: 9781350043800; 9781350043770
Subjects: Dialectical materialism; Philosophy; Sex
Description: "In the most rigorous articulation of his philosophical system to date, Slavoj Žižek provides nothing short of a new definition of dialectical materialism.  In forging this new materialism, Žižek 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, Žižek 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 Žižek at his interrogative best."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
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Table of contents: title: Dedication; title: Introduction The Unorientable Space of Dialectical Materialism; title: Theorem I The Parallax of Ontology; title: Corollary 1 Intellectual Intuition and Intellectus Archetypus: Reflexivity in Kant and Hegel; title: Scholium 1.1 Buddha, Kant, Husserl; title: Scholium 1.2 Hegel's Parallax; title: Scholium 1.3 The "Death of Truth"; title: Theorem II Sex as Our Brush with the Absolute; title: Corollary 2 Sinuosities of Sexualized Time; title: Scholium 2.1 Schematism in Kant, Hegel . . . and Sex; title: Scholium 2.2 Marx, Brecht, and Sexual Contracts; title: Scholium 2.3 The Hegelian Repetition; title: Scholium 2.4 Seven Deadly Sins; title: Theorem III The Three Unorientables; title: Corollary 3 The Retarded God of Ontology; title: Scholium 3.1 The Ethical Möbius Strip; title: Scholium 3.2 The Dark Tower of Suture; title: Scholium 3.3 Suture and Hegemony; title: Scholium 3.4 The World With(out) a Snout; title: Scholium 3.5 Towards a Quantum Platonism; title: Theorem IV The Persistence of Abstraction; title: Corollary 4 Ibi Rhodus Ibi Saltus!; title: Scholium 4.1 Language, Lalangue; title: Scholium 4.2 Prokofiev's Travels; title: Scholium 4.3 Beckett as the Writer of Abstraction; title: Index.