Sex and the Failed Absolute

In the most rigorous articulation of his philosophical system to date, Slavoj ¿i¿ek provides nothing short of a new definition of dialectical materialism. In forging this new materialism, ¿i¿ek critiques and challenges not only the work of Alain Badiou, Robert Brandom, Joan Copjec, Quentin Meillassoux, and Julia Kristeva (to name but a few), but everything from popular science and quantum mechanics to sexual difference and analytic philosophy. Alongside striking images of the Möbius strip, ...