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Slavoj žižek - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • absolute recoil towards a new foundation of Dialectical Materialism
    2014
    Co-Authors: Slavoj žižek
    Abstract:

    "In this major new work the leading philosopher Slavoj Zizek argues that philosophical Materialism has failed to meet the key scientific, theoretical and political challenges of the modern world, from relativity theory and quantum physics to Freudian psychoanalysis and the failure of twentieth-century Communism. To bring Materialism up to date, Zizek proposes a new foundation for Dialectical Materialism. He argues that Dialectical Materialism is the only true philosophical inheritor of what Hegel designates as the speculative approach of thought - all other forms of Materialism fail. In Absolute Recoil, Zizek offers a startling reformulation of the ground and possibilities of contemporary philosophy."

  • less than nothing hegel and the shadow of Dialectical Materialism
    2012
    Co-Authors: Slavoj žižek
    Abstract:

    Book synopsis: For the last two centuries, Western philosophy has developed in the shadow of Hegel, whose influence each new thinker tries in vain to escape. As a consequence, Hegel's absolute idealism has become the bogeyman of philosophy, obscuring his dominance as the philosopher of the epochal historical transition to modernity. In Less Than Nothing, the pinnacle publication of a distinguished career, Slavoj Žižek argues that it is imperative we not simply return to Hegel but we repeat and exceed his triumphs, overcoming his limitations by being even more Hegelian than the master himself. Such an approach not only enables Žižek to diagnose our present condition, but also to engage in a critical dialogue with the key strands of contemporary thought. Modernity will begin and end with Hegel.

  • less than nothing hegel and the shadow of Dialectical Materialism
    2012
    Co-Authors: Slavoj žižek
    Abstract:

    For the last two centuries, Western philosophy has developed in the shadow of Hegel, whose influence each new thinker tries in vain to escape: whether in the name of the pre-rational Will, the social process of production, or the contingency of individual existence. Hegel's absolute idealism has become the bogeyman of philosophy, obscuring the fact that he is the dominant philosopher of the epochal historical transition to modernity; a period with which our own time shares startling similarities. Today, as global capitalism comes apart at the seams, we are entering a new transition. In "Less Than Nothing", the pinnacle publication of a distinguished career, Slavoj Zizek argues that it is imperative that we not simply return to Hegel but that we repeat and exceed his triumphs, overcoming his limitations by being even more Hegelian than the master himself. Such an approach not only enables Zizek to diagnose our present condition, but also to engage in a critical dialogue with the key strands of contemporary thought - Heidegger, Badiou, speculative realism, quantum physics and cognitive sciences. Modernity will begin and end with Hegel.

Olival Freire - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Dialectical Materialism and modern physics an unpublished text by max born
    Notes and Records, 2010
    Co-Authors: Olival Freire, Christoph Lehner
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    A previously unpublished manuscript by the physicist Max Born, one of the creators of quantum mechanics, is presented. The manuscript was addressed to Born's colleague Leon Rosenfeld and criticized his attempt to show that Niels Bohr's doctrine of complementarity was an example of Dialectical Materialism and as such in perfect agreement with Marxist philosophy. Besides illustrating the deep political divisions among defenders of the 'Copenhagen spirit' in quantum physics, the manuscript is also a valuable source illuminating Max Born's philosophical position about scientific methodology and epistemology. for the first time, offers interesting insights into both philosophy and politics of the time. Born's and Rosenfeld's views differed even though they both saw themselves as defenders of Bohr's position on quantum mechanics. Politics clearly pitted Born against Rosenfeld, Liberal against Marxist, especially given the heightened sensitivities of the Cold War climate. Nevertheless, it is puzzling why Born felt motivated to protest against Rosenfeld's position in this rather elaborate form, and why he never published the manuscript. The text shows that, beyond the obvious political disagreement, Born was opposing Rosenfeld's characterization of the role of epistemology and ontology in physics. Therefore, the text throws light on Born's philosophical position, which is not discussed extensively in the literature on this central figure in the development of quantum mechanics. In the rising controversy over the interpretation of quantum mechanics during the 1950s, both scientists were in the same camp, supporting the complementarity view and aligned with Niels Bohr, Wolfgang Pauli and Werner Heisenberg. The modern term 'Copenhagen

  • science philosophy and politics in the fifties on the max born s unpublished paper entitled Dialectical Materialism and modern physics
    Historia scientiarum. Second series : international journal of the History of Science Society of Japan, 2001
    Co-Authors: Olival Freire
    Abstract:

    L'article non publie du physicien Max Born concernant le Materialisme dialectique et la physique moderne demontrent les aspects scientifiques, philosophiques et politiques de l'activite scientifique des annees 1950 et s'inscrit dans la dispute sur l'interpretation de la physique quantique

Frank Ruda - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Dialectical Materialism and the dangers of aristotelianism
    2016
    Co-Authors: Frank Ruda
    Abstract:

    In 2013, at a conference entitled “The Actuality of the Absolute: Hegel, Our Untimely Contemporary” that took place at the Birkbeck Institute for Humanities in London, Slavoj Žižek presented his paper as the last speaker. He presented some of the arguments that he afterward turned into the argumentative kernel of chapters two and three of his Absolute Recoil. In the discussion following his lecture, someone from the audience raised a critical question that sought to point out a performative contradiction with regard not only to Žižek’s presentation at the conference but rather to his way of thinking altogether. The question that he raised was the following: how can one at the same time claim to defend and resurrect Hegel, the thinker of the system and conceptual consistency, and also jump from speaking about Martin Heidegger to elaborating on Walter Benjamin, from addressing the relation between man and nature (in this case between human beings and the fish in the sea) to the emergence of language and radical historicity, to ultimately also speak about politics of emancipation? In short: how can Žižek defend Hegel, the ultimate thinker of systematicity and conceptual inferences, and at the same time present not only a paper but also a way of thinking that completely lacks (or seems to lack) the very systematicity and consistency he proclaims to defend? Žižek’s respective presentation, but also his thought in general, thereby comes to embody this kind of performative contradiction, opting for one thing and enacting its very opposite.

  • introduction the absolute revisited slavoj žižek and Dialectical Materialism
    2016
    Co-Authors: Agon Hamza, Frank Ruda
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    The concept for this book emerged after the publication of Slavoj Žižek’s Absolute Recoil: Towards a New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism.1 The initial aim was to gather a series of responses to the book in the philosophical journal Crisis and Critique2 that we both coedit. We envisaged bringing together scholars who begin from different perspectives to seriously engage with the concept of dialectic in the work of G. W. E Hegel and Jacques Lacan as presented and systematically developed by Žižek in Absolute Recoil. But when we started putting this together, it became clear that the initial idea had to be expanded beyond the frame of a journal issue and required a properly systematic realization in the form of a book.

Soares Barbosa Carlos - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • A farsa que se repete: ataque ao “marxismo cultural” e à educação crítica no Governo Bolsonaro
    Dipartimento di Lingue Letterature e Culture moderne - Università di Bologna, 2021
    Co-Authors: Soares Barbosa Carlos
    Abstract:

    In this text I seek to identify the implicit interests of the attacks on the supposed "cultural Marxism", which according to the Bolsonaro’s government predominates in the Brazilian public education. Using the method of historical-Dialectical Materialism, I conclude that the intention of these attacks is to legitimize the interruption of recent social advances, ensure the appropriate conditions for capitalism and institute uncritical training for the working class, in order to prevent questions and social manifestations that would address the worsening of the social inequality, thus maintaining brazilians dependent of capitalism.Neste texto busco identificar os interesses implícitos dos ataques ao suposto “marxismo cultural” que, segundo o Governo Bolsonaro, predomina na educação pública brasileira. Utilizando-se do método do Materialismo histórico-dialético, concluo que a intenção desses ataques é legitimar a interrupção dos recentes avanços sociais, assegurar as condições adequadas para o capital e instituir uma formação acrítica para a classe trabalhadora, a fim de impedir questionamentos e convulsões sociais frente ao agravamento da desigualdade social, mantendo, assim, o capitalismo dependente brasileiro