In the monograph Absolute Recoil: Toward a New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism, Slavoj Žižek advocates the thesis that philosophical materialism in all its forms, from scientific realism to Deleuze's new materialism, cannot satisfy the new theoretical and political conditions and challenges of the contemporary world. Žižek analyzes the failure of the communism in 20th century and combines the social analyses with the concepts of modern science, including Freudian psychoanalysis and quantum physics, and endeavors to prove how the critique of capitalism is only possible via the dialectical-materialist standpoint.
COBISS.SI-ID: 2603143
The book of Matjaž Potrč is a critique of anti-naturalist stances which make reality dependent on language and thought. The author thus advocates the stance of naturalism, according to which it is language and thought that are dependent on the objects. Thereby he proposes a stance of perceptive activity, based on the concepts of intentionality, modularity, difference and cooperation between perception and knowledge, realism, and syntax. From this perspective, the thought precedes language, and the objects of perception, insofar they are connected to activity, precede thinking.
COBISS.SI-ID: 59396194
In The Untruth of Reality, Jure Simoniti points out the necessary realist side of modern philosophy. In it, the epistemological self-inauguration of the subject goes hand in hand with his anthropological dethronement, the god-like centrality of the “ego” is constantly counterbalanced with his creatural marginality, the activity of the constitutive subject is juxtaposed with the growing indifference of the world, and the linguistic appropriation of the world simultaneously performs operations of the de-symbolization of reality. It is therefore the goal of this book to demonstrate how the paradigms of consciousness and language are not necessarily incompatible with realism, but rather open new and broader possibilities for the world behind and beyond consciousness and language to disclose itself.
COBISS.SI-ID: 62800482
In his tetralogy Four Seasons, Marko Uršič presents, by way of dialogue, his basic philosophical themes, intertwined with literary passages. In terms of content, they are treatises of philosophy, but, in terms of form and essence, they are much more than that: they are complex literary works which, along with theoretical argumentation, resort also to artistic expression. The first part of "Summer, On Renaissance Beauty," offers reflexions on beauty, as conceived and experienced in the Renaissance. Employing various rhetorical and stylistic forms, by way of monologue, dialogue, essay, and even a fictitious novel, set in the times of Florentine Renaissance, the author reaches his final realization that "despite all its imperfections, there is hope in beauty ..."
COBISS.SI-ID: 287518720
The book is the collection of six essays which can stand as independent papers, but which present a clear red thread focused on the intersections between philosophy and psychoanalysis through the essential problem of thinking sexual difference. The essays deal with Kierkegaard's proposal of the classification of humankind, the paradoxes of classifiction (taking examples from Hegel and Marx, among others), the impossibility of classifying sexual difference, the critique of the objection of 'phallogocentrism'; the close reading of Freud's specimen dream of Irma's injection, and hence the problems of treating hysteria as the entry point into the psychoanalytic interpretation; the complex relationships between the Hegelian dialectics and psychoanalysis; the political consequences of psychoanalysis; the problem of touch and tactility, from Aristotle to Freud, Merleau-Ponty and Nancy; the treatment of sexual difference in the philosophical tradition from Thales to Heidegger. Through an array of different themes and entry points the book pursues the 'ontological' status of sexual difference and examines the very nature of the notion of difference.
COBISS.SI-ID: 62853986