{"product_id":"9781350566422","title":"Quantum History: A New Materialist Philosophy","description":"Author: Zizek, Slavoj\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781350566422\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 11 Dec 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 480 Format: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA panoramic view of the cosmos must begin with the tension of a single political moment. \u003c\/b\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eQuantum History\u003c\/i\u003e, Slavoj   i  ek brings together Hegelian dialectics, Lacan psychoanalysis and quantum mechanics to rethink history, reality and political possibility.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eTaking 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,   i  ek 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,   i  ek 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eQuantum History\u003c\/i\u003e 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.   i  ek 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.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46658444296350,"sku":"UBD-9781350566422","price":39.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781350566422.jpg?v=1774925940","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781350566422","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}