{"product_id":"9781844675814","title":"Indivisible Remainder: On Schelling and Related Matters","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47043211002096,"sku":"9781844675814","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781844675814_p0.jpg?v=1763743773","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781844675814","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}