Absolute Recoil
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Absolute Recoil by Slavoj Zizek
Zizek's new philosophical masterwork.
Few thinkers illustrate the contradictions of contemporary capitalism better than Slavoj Zizek.. one of the world's best-known public intellectuals. -- John Gray * New York Review of Books *
A gifted speaker - tumultuous, emphatic, direct - and he writes as he speaks. -- Jonathan Rée * Guardian *
A serious attempt to reanimate or re-actualize Hegel. -- Robert Pippin, author of Hegel's Idealism, on Less Than Nothing
Like Socrates on steroids: Zizek is breathtakingly perceptive. -- Terry Eagleton
A gifted speaker - tumultuous, emphatic, direct - and he writes as he speaks. -- Jonathan Rée * Guardian *
A serious attempt to reanimate or re-actualize Hegel. -- Robert Pippin, author of Hegel's Idealism, on Less Than Nothing
Like Socrates on steroids: Zizek is breathtakingly perceptive. -- Terry Eagleton
Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Less Than Nothing, The Year of Dreaming Dangerously, Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, In Defense of Lost Causes, six volumes of the Essential Zizek, and many more.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781781686829 |
| ISBN 10 | 1781686823 |
| Title | Absolute Recoil |
| Author | Slavoj Zizek |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Verso Books |
| Year published | 2014-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 448 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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