Quantum history: a new materialist philosophy (Record no. 64206)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781350566422 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 335.4119 ZIZ |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Zizek, Slavoj |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Quantum history: a new materialist philosophy |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | London: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Bloomsbury Academic, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2025 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | viii, 443p.: |
| Other physical details | ill.: |
| Dimensions | 24cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc | Includes Notes and Index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | A panoramic view of the cosmos must begin with the tension of a single political moment. In Quantum History, Slavoj Žižek brings together Hegelian dialectics, Lacan psychoanalysis and quantum mechanics to rethink history, reality and political possibility.<br/>Taking up Lenin's challenge to radically reconsider materialism in the wake of each big scientific discovery, and rejecting the recent vogue for giving a vague spiritualist spin to wave mechanics, Žižek embraces the philosophical implications of quantum mechanics with characteristic erudition and verve. Drawing on the central themes of the holographic universe, non-commutativity and the collapse of superpositions, Žižek evolves a quantum-inspired ontology which reinvents the historical materialism of Hegel and Heidegger – and compels a brutal, often darkly funny, inquisition into the chances of radical emancipatory acts today.<br/>Quantum History takes the reader from the absolute contradiction of the primordial void through quantum oscillations to our ordinary reality, weaving in Lacan and Deleuze, Rovelli and Schelling, opera, cinema, sex and war. Žižek is at his sharpest, saddest, most provocative best as he demonstrates that there is no way of extracting ourselves from the texture of history, no neutral position from which the workings of the world can be observed transparently – we must act from a contingent, complex and inscrutable political moment, in sadness and in doubt, but defiantly. https://www.bloomsbury.com/in/quantum-history-9781350566439/ |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Philosophy |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Dialectical Materialism |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Hegelianism |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Historical Materialism |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Political Philosophy |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | Not for Issue | General | IIT Gandhinagar | IIT Gandhinagar | 22/01/2026 | Baroda Books | 2426.20 | 335.4119 ZIZ | 036608 | 22/01/2026 | 1 | 2426.20 | Books |
