Quantum History : A New Materialist Philosophy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zizek, Slavoj, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quantum theory--History.

Quantum theory.

Materialism--Philosophy.

Materialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (457 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2025.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

Slavoj Žižek's treatise on how insights from the field of Quantum Physics allow a total re-invention of how we think about history.

Contents:

Introduction: Materialism and Quantum Criticism I - Universal: Collapse Comes First 1 Why A Hegelian Needs Quantum Mechanics 2 Why Quantum Mechanics Needs Hegel 3 Noncommutativity in the Symbolic and in the (Quantum) Real II - Particular: From Hegel to Heidegger... and Back 1 Names for Finitude: Hegel, Heidegger, Pippin 2 The Night of the World 3 Heidegger's Politics of Finitude III - Singular: Politics in a Quantum World 1 The Hologram of Conflicting Universalities 2 Can Artificial Intelligence Really Think? 3 The Politics of Vocation Variations Variation 1 - Frozen Beauty: Rovelli, Deleuze and the Stoics Variation 2 - No Substitute for True Universals Variation 3 - Pure Voice, Pure Sound: Beethoven, Globokar, Act Variation 4 - Acts of Reconciliation Variation 5 - Moderately Conservative Communism Variation 6 - The Painted Void Variation 7 - The Many Monsters of Cinema Variation 8 - Sexual Superpositions Variation 9 - Make The Kitchen Maid King Conclusion: The Hunger to Be Something

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-350-56645-4

1-350-56643-8

9781350566439

OCLC:

1551397509