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A New German Idealism - Hegel, Zizek, and Dialectical Materialism (Hardcover)
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A New German Idealism - Hegel, Zizek, and Dialectical Materialism (Hardcover)
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In 2012, philosopher and public intellectual Slavoj Zizek published
what arguably is his magnum opus, the one-thousand-page tome Less
Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism. A
sizable sequel appeared in 2014, Absolute Recoil: Towards a New
Foundation of Dialectical Materialism. In these two books, Zizek
returns to the German idealist G. W. F. Hegel in order to forge a
new materialism for the twenty-first century. Zizek's reinvention
of Hegelian dialectics explores perennial and contemporary
concerns: humanity's relations with nature, the place of human
freedom, the limits of rationality, the roles of spirituality and
religion, and the prospects for radical sociopolitical change. In A
New German Idealism, Adrian Johnston offers a first-of-its-kind
sustained critical response to Less Than Nothing and Absolute
Recoil. Johnston, a leading authority on and interlocutor of Zizek,
assesses the recent return to Hegel against the backdrop of Kantian
and post-Kantian German idealism. He also presents alternate
reconstructions of Hegel's positions that differ in important
respects from Zizek's version of dialectical materialism. In
particular, Johnston criticizes Zizek's deviations from the secular
naturalism and Enlightenment optimism of his chosen sources of
inspiration: not only Hegel, but Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud too.
In response, Johnston develops what he calls transcendental
materialism, an antireductive and leftist materialism capable of
preserving and advancing the core legacies of the Hegelian,
Marxian, and Freudian traditions central to Zizek.
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