ABSOLUTE RECOIL

Philosophical materialism in all its forms from scientific naturalism to Deleuzian New Materialism has failed to meet the key th eoretical and political challenges of the modern world. This is the burden of philosopher Slavoj ieks argument in this pathbreaki ng and eclectic new work. Recent history has seen developments such as quantum physics and Freudian psychoanalysis, not to speak of the failure of twentieth-century communism, shake our understanding of existence...