Quantum History

Slavoj Zizek

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ISBN-13
9781350566422
Subject
Western Philosophy
Author
Slavoj Zizek
Subtitle
A New Materialist Philosophy
Publish Date
2025-11-13
Publisher Name
Bloomsbury Academic
Book Type
Hardcover
Number of Pages
443
ISBN-10
135056642X
Name Source
Bowker
SKU
9781350566422

Description

"Taking up Lenin's challenge to radically rethink materialism in the wake of each big scientific discovery, and rejecting the recent vogue for giving a vague spiritualist spin to wave mechanics, Žižek embraces the philosophical implications of quantum mechanics with characteristic erudition and verve. Drawing on the central themes of the holographic universe, non-commutativity and the collapse of superpositions, Žižek evolves a quantum-inspired ontology which reinvents the historical materialism of Hegel and Heidegger - and compels a brutal, often darkly funny, inquisition into the chances of radical emancipatory acts today"--