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Disparities (Paperback)
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Disparities (Paperback)
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Loot Price R540
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The concept of disparity has long been a topic of obsession and
argument for philosophers but Slavoj Zizek would argue that what
disparity and negativity could mean, might mean and should mean for
us and our lives has never been more hotly debated. Disparities
explores contemporary 'negative' philosophies from Catherine
Malabou's plasticity, Julia Kristeva's abjection and Robert
Pippin's self-consciousness to the God of negative theology, new
realisms and post-humanism and draws a radical line under them.
Instead of establishing a dialogue with these other ideas of
disparity, Slavoj Zizek wants to establish a definite departure, a
totally different idea of disparity based on an imaginative
dialectical materialism. This notion of rupturing what has gone
before is based on a provocative reading of how philosophers can,
if they're honest, engage with each other. Slavoj Zizek borrows
Alain Badiou's notion that a true idea is the one that divides.
Radically departing from previous formulations of negativity and
disparity, Zizek employs a new kind of negativity: namely positing
that when a philosopher deals with another philosopher, his or her
stance is never one of dialogue, but one of division, of drawing a
line that separates truth from falsity.
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