{"product_id":"the-indivisible-remainder-on-schelling-and-related-matters-9781844675814","title":"The Indivisible Remainder: On Schelling and Related Matters","description":"The feature which distinguishes the great works of materialist thought, from Lucretius' \u003ci\u003eDe rerum natura \u003c\/i\u003ethrough \u003ci\u003eCapital \u003c\/i\u003eto the writings of Lacan, is their unfinished character: again and again they tackle their chosen problem. Schelling's \u003ci\u003eWeltalter\u003c\/i\u003e drafts belong to this same series, with their repeated attempt at the formulation of the 'beginning of the world, ' of the passage from the pre-symbolic pulsation of the Real to the universe of logos. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eF.W.J. Schelling, the German idealist who for too long dwelled in the shadow of Kant and Hegel, was the first to formulate the post-idealist motifs of finitude, contingency and temporality. His unique work announces Marx's critique of speculative idealism, as well as the properly Freudian notion of drive, of a blind compulsion to repeat which can never be sublated in the ideal medium of language. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Indivisible Remainder \u003c\/i\u003ebegins with a detailed examination of the two works in which Schelling's speculative audacity reached its peak: his essay on human freedom and his drafts on the \"Ages of the World.\" After reconstituting their line of argumentation, Slavoj Žižek confronts Schelling with Hegel, and concludes by throwing a Schellingian light on some \"related matters\" the consequences of the computerization of daily life for sexual experience; cynicism as today's predominant form of ideology; the epistemological deadlocks of quantum physics. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlthough the book is packed with examples from politics and popular culture -- the unmistakable token of Žižek's style -- from \u003ci\u003eSpeed\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGroundhog Day\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eForrest Gump, \u003c\/i\u003e it signals a major shift towards a systematic concern with the basic questions of philosophy and the roots of the crisis of our late-capitalist universe, centred around the enigma of modern subjectivity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSlavoj Žižek\u003c\/b\u003e is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include \u003ci\u003eLiving in the End Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFirst as Tragedy, Then as Farce\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIn Defense of Lost Causes\u003c\/i\u003e, four volumes of the Essential Žižek, and many more.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50506492313874,"sku":"9781844675814","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b48b2a8c-14d3-4f23-80f3-428ff4889598.jpg?v=1730850615","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-indivisible-remainder-on-schelling-and-related-matters-9781844675814","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}