Slavoj Žižek, The Indivisible Remainder: On Schelling and Related Matters

Kelsey Wood (University of Arkansas at Little Rock)

Ed. by Gerhard P. Knapp, University of Utah
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.07: French Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Kate Averis (University of Western Australia), Hugo Azerad (University of Cambridge), Patrick ffrench (King's College London), Edward Forman (University of Bristol), Akane Kawakami (Birkbeck, University of London), Siobhán McIlvanney (King's College London), Sinan Richards (King's College London), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield)

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Philosophy (any)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1994

Places

England (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Commentary / criticism

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Slavoj Žižek's thinking is a fusion of elements from German idealism, Marx and Lacan. Using Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytic theory in order to reactualize the dialectical method of German idealism, Žižek has reinvigorated a dialectical materialist critique of the ideology of global liberal capitalism. One of Žižek's most theoretically speculative books is

The Indivisible Remainder: On Schelling and Related Matters

(1996, 2007). In

Indivisible

, Žižek clarifies his version of dialectical materialism by investigating F. W. J. von Schelling's struggle in

Die Weltalter

[

The Ages of the World

] to mediate the contradiction in metaphysics between idealism and materialism. Kant left to his German idealist followers—Fichte, Schelling, Hegel—a notion of things-in-themselves (noumena) as…

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Citation: Wood, Kelsey. "The Indivisible Remainder: On Schelling and Related Matters". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 13 January 2010 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=23505, accessed 21 November 2024.]