{"product_id":"a-new-german-idealism-hegel-zizek-and-dialectical-materialism-9780231183956","title":"A New German Idealism: Hegel, Zizek, and Dialectical Materialism","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 2012, philosopher and public intellectual Slavoj Zizek published what arguably is his magnum opus, the one-thousand-page tome \u003ci\u003eLess Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism\u003c\/i\u003e. A sizable sequel appeared in 2014, \u003ci\u003eAbsolute Recoil: Towards a New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism\u003c\/i\u003e. In these two books, Zizek returns to the German idealist G. W. F. Hegel in order to forge a new materialism for the twenty-first century. Zizek's reinvention of Hegelian dialectics explores perennial and contemporary concerns: humanity's relations with nature, the place of human freedom, the limits of rationality, the roles of spirituality and religion, and the prospects for radical sociopolitical change. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eA New German Idealism\u003c\/i\u003e, Adrian Johnston offers a first-of-its-kind sustained critical response to \u003ci\u003eLess Than Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAbsolute Recoil\u003c\/i\u003e. Johnston, a leading authority on and interlocutor of Zizek, assesses the recent return to Hegel against the backdrop of Kantian and post-Kantian German idealism. He also presents alternate reconstructions of Hegel's positions that differ in important respects from Zizek's version of dialectical materialism. In particular, Johnston criticizes Zizek's deviations from the secular naturalism and Enlightenment optimism of his chosen sources of inspiration: not only Hegel, but Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud too. In response, Johnston develops what he calls transcendental materialism, an antireductive and leftist materialism capable of preserving and advancing the core legacies of the Hegelian, Marxian, and Freudian traditions central to Zizek.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-11036251\"\u003eAdrian Johnston\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/03\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 376\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231183956\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 023118395X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-PHI\"\u003ePhilosophy\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-PHI042000\"\u003eMovements | Idealism\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-PHI\"\u003ePhilosophy\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-PHI046000\"\u003eIndividual Philosophers\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POL\"\u003ePolitical Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POL010000\"\u003eHistory \u0026amp; Theory | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAdrian Johnston is Distinguished Professor in and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico and is a faculty member at the Emory Psychoanalytic Institute in Atlanta. His many books include \u003ci\u003eZizek's Ontology: A Transcendental Materialist Theory of Subjectivity\u003c\/i\u003e (2008); \u003ci\u003eProlegomena to Any Future Materialism\u003c\/i\u003e, vol. 1\u003ci\u003e The Outcome of Contemporary French Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e (2013); and, with Catherine Malabou, \u003ci\u003eSelf and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience\u003c\/i\u003e (2013, Columbia University Press). With Todd McGowan and Slavoj Zizek, he is a coeditor of the book series Diaeresis at Northwestern University Press.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44543745261805,"sku":"9780231183956","price":58.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_8917e86b-9abd-4bad-b455-6dbeb1ee6611.jpg?v=1701546356","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/es\/products\/a-new-german-idealism-hegel-zizek-and-dialectical-materialism-9780231183956","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}