QUANTUM HISTORY. A NEW MATERIALIST PHILOSOPHY

A panoramic view of the cosmos must begin with the tension of a single political moment. In Quantum History, Slavoj iek brings together Hegelian dialectics, Lacan psychoanalysis and quantum mechanics to rethink history, reality and political possibility. Taking up Lenin's challenge to radically reconsider materialism in the wake of each big scientific discovery, and rejecting the recent vogue for giving a vague spiritualist spin to wave mechanics, iek embraces the philosophical implications of quantum mechanics with characteristic eru...[Read more]