Absolute Recoil by Slavoj Žižek
Towards a New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism
This provocative work reads contemporary political violence and liberal responses through Hegelian and Lacanian frames, arguing that attempts to avoid antagonism via multicultural tolerance and guilt often reproduce the very antagonisms they seek to dissolve; it develops a theory of emancipatory negativity—a paradoxical act that undoes itself—to distinguish genuine revolutionary rupture from reactionary violence, and uses readings of recent events and cultural symptoms to show how ideology conceals the conditions for true universal emancipation.
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- 2014
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