A New German Idealism: Hegel, Žižek, and Dialectical

A New German Idealism: Hegel, Žižek, and Dialectical Materialism

In 2012, philosopher and public intellectual Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek 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, Å½iÅ¾ek returns to the German idealist G. W. F. Hegel in order to forge a new materialism for the twenty-first century. Å½iÅ¾ekâ€™s reinvention of Hegelian dialectics explores perennial and contemporary concerns: humanityâ€™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 Å½iÅ¾ek, assesses the recent return to Hegel against the backdrop of Kantian and post-Kantian German idealism. He also presents alternate reconstructions of Hegelâ€™s positions that differ in important respects from Å½iÅ¾ekâ€™s version of dialectical materialism. In particular, Johnston criticizes Å½iÅ¾ekâ€™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 Å½iÅ¾ek.
Country USA
Brand Columbia University Press
Manufacturer Columbia University Press
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9780231183949
ReleaseDate 2018-05-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780231183949

Country	USA
Brand	Columbia University Press
Manufacturer	Columbia University Press
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9780231183949
ReleaseDate	2018-05-01
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780231183949

A New German Idealism: Hegel, Žižek, and Dialectical Materialism

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