Slavoj Zizek 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 new foundation for dialectical materialism.

“'A brilliant collection of essays not only on Zizek's most recent work, but on dialectical thought as such.' - Fabio Vighi, Professor of Italian and Critical Theory and Co-director of the iek Centre for Ideology Critique, Cardiff University, UK”

Simon Hajdini, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Adrian Johnston, University of New Mexico, USA Victor Marques, Brazil Todd McGowan, University of Vermont, USA Robert Pfaller, University of Art and Industrial Design, Austria. Ed Pluth, California State University, Chico, USA Vladimir Safatle, University of São Paulo, Brazil Gabriel Tupinambá, Brazil Jan Völker, Institute of Fine Arts and Aesthetics at the Berlin University of the Arts, Germany Slavoj i ek, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Slavoj Žižek 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 philosophical engagements with Žižek's thought remain a surprisingly rare phenomenon. Counteracting this dearth of substantive interaction, the contributors to this volume engage with crucial and fundamental aspects of Žižek's thought. The book follows a Hegelian motivation that is itself dear to Žižek, tracing the concept of dialectical materialism in his more recent work. It takes as its concrete starting point the most current, systematic elaborations of Žižek's thought, namely Absolute Recoil: Towards A New Foundation Of Dialectical Materialism as well as his magnum opus Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism. The contributors provide concrete elaborations of arguments developed within these two works, giving voice to their universal implications. The book also features an afterword by Žižek himself, in which he critically examines the work of Levi Bryant as well as the tradition of object-oriented-ontology on the whole.

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