Sex and the Failed Absolute

In the most rigorous articulation of his philosophical system to date Slavoj Zizek provides nothing short of a new definition of dialectical materialism.<br/><br/>In forging this new materialism Zizek critiques and challenges not only the work of Alain Badiou Robert Brandom Joan Copjec Quentin Meillassoux and Julia Kristeva (to name but a few) but everything from popular science and quantum mechanics to sexual difference and analytic philosophy. Alongside striking images of the Möbius strip the cross-cap and the Klein bottle Zizek brings alive the Hegelian triad of being-essence-notion. Radical new readings of Hegel and Kant sit side by side with characteristically lively commentaries on film politics and culture.<br/><br/>Here is Zizek at his interrogative best.