Slavoj Žižek and dialectical materialism
Slavoj Žižek and dialectical materialism
Slavoj Zizek has been widely described as one of the most important and influential contemporary thinkers, philosophers, and cultural critics. However, despite the often critical attention and reviews his work garners in scholarly journal articles and books, systematic philosoph…
Slavoj Žižek and dialectical materialism
Slavoj Žižek and dialectical materialism
This book is the first volume to bring together the most prominent scholars who work on Slavoj i ek's philosophy, examining and interrogating his understanding of dialectical materialism. It deserves to be thoroughly and systematically elaborated because it attempts to propose a…
Much has been written since Capital was first published, and more recently after the demise of the Soviet Union and the consequent triumph of neoliberalism, about the irrelevance, inconsistency, and obsoleteness of Marx. This has been attributed to his unworkable method of inqui…
The monstrosity of Christ: paradox or dialectic?
by Žižek, Slavoj, Milbank, John, Davis, Creston
fromShort circuits
In 'The Monstrosity of Christ', a militant Marxist atheist (Žižek) and a 'radical orthodox' Christian theologian (Milbank) square off on everything from the meaning of theology and Christ to the war machine of corporate mafia.