Name: Reading Hegel
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Author: Zizek, Slavoj ; Ruda, Frank ; Hamza, Agon
ISBN: 9781509545902

Type

Physical Book

Author

Publisher

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

216

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.4 x 13.8 x 1.8 cm

Weight

0.32 kg.

ISBN13

9781509545902

Synopsis "Reading Hegel"

A spirit is haunting contemporary thought - the spirit of Hegel. All the powers of academia have entered into a holy alliance to exorcize this spirit: Vitalists and Eschatologists, Transcendental Pragmatists and Speculative Realists, Historical Materialists and even 'liberal Hegelians'. Which of these groups has not been denounced as metaphysically Hegelian by its opponents? And which has not hurled back the branding reproach of Hegelian metaphysics in its turn? Progressives, liberals and reactionaries alike receive this condemnation. In light of this situation, it is high time that true Hegelians should openly admit their allegiance and, without obfuscation, express the importance and validity of Hegelianism to the contemporary intellectual scene. To this end, a small group of Hegelians of different nationalities have assembled to sketch the following book - a book which addresses a number of pressing issues that a contemporary reading of Hegel allows a new perspective on: our relation to the future, our relation to nature and our relation to the absolute.

Slavoj Zizek

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Slavoj Žižek (Ljubljana, March 21, 1949) is a Slovenian philosopher, psychoanalyst, and cultural critic. He is the international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London. He teaches continental philosophy, psychoanalysis, political theory, cultural studies, film criticism, Marxism, Hegelianism, and theology.

In 1989, Žižek published his first text in English, The Sublime Object of Ideology, in which he moved away from traditional Marxist theory to develop a materialist conception of ideology that heavily relied on Lacanian psychoanalysis and Hegelian idealism.

In 2012, Foreign Policy included Žižek in its list of the top 100 global thinkers, calling him a "philosophical celebrity." Žižek's work was featured in a 2005 documentary titled Zizek!. An academic journal, the International Journal of Žižek Studies, was founded to understand his work.

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