{"product_id":"the-indivisible-remainder-by-slavoj-zizek-9781844675814","title":"The Indivisible Remainder","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe feature which distinguishes the great works of materialist thought, from Lucretius' \u003ci\u003eDe rerum natura\u003c\/i\u003e through \u003ci\u003eCapital\u003c\/i\u003e to the writings of Lacan, is their unfinished character: again and again they tackle their chosen problem. Schelling's \u003ci\u003eWeltalter\u003c\/i\u003e drafts belong to this same series, with their repeated attempt at the formulation of the \"beginning of the world,\" of the passage from the pre-symbolic pulsation of the Real to the universe of logos.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eF.W.J. Schelling, the German idealist who for too long dwelled in the shadow of Kant and Hegel, was the first to formulate the post-idealist motifs of finitude, contingency and temporality. His unique work announces Marx's critique of speculative idealism, as well as the properly Freudian notion of drive, of a blind compulsion to repeat which can never be sublated in the ideal medium of language.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Indivisible Remainder\u003c\/i\u003e begins with a detailed examination of the two works in which Schelling's speculative audacity reached its peak: his essay on human freedom and his drafts on the \"Ages of the World.\" After reconstituting their line of argumentation, Slavoj Zizek confronts Schelling with Hegel, and concludes by throwing a Schellingian light on some \"related matters\": the consequences of the computerisation of daily life for sexual experience; cynicism as today's predominant form of ideology; the epistemological deadlocks of quantum physics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough the book is packed with examples from politics and popular culture— the unmistakable token of Zizek's style— from \u003ci\u003eSpeed\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGroundhog Day\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eForrest Gump\u003c\/i\u003e, it signals a major shift towards a systematic concern with the basic questions of philosophy and the roots of the crisis of our late-capitalist universe, centred around the enigma of modern subjectivity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471796879596,"sku":"9781844675814","price":22.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781844675814-the-indivisible-remainder.jpg?v=1775254953","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-indivisible-remainder-by-slavoj-zizek-9781844675814","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}