Overview
F.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 Marxās 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.
The Indivisible Remainder begins with a detailed examination of the two works in which Schellingās speculative audacity reached its peak: his essay on human freedom and his drafts on the āAges of the World.ā After reconstituting their line of argumentation, Slavoj iek confronts Schelling with Hegel, and concludes by throwing a Schellingian light on some ārelated mattersā: the consequences of the computerization of daily life for sexual experience; cynicism as todayās predominant form of ideology; the epistemological deadlocks of quantum physics.
Although the book is packed with examples from politics and popular culture ā the unmistakable token of iekās style ā from Speed and Groundhog Day to Forrest Gump, 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.
This book title, The Indivisible Remainder (On Schelling and Related Matters), ISBN: 9781844675814, by Slavoj Zizek, published by Verso Books (January 17, 2007) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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