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Žižek's Ontology w/ Adrian Johnston
Žižek And So On
The Importance of Contemplative Materialism in the Marxist Tradition
Gee-Zek's commitment to preserving a place within a materialist ontology for something like, you know, German idealist transcendental subjectivity requires a very different philosophical framework than what you get in the Marxist tradition. For Marx, traditional materialism is contemplative and offers no account of it. And one could say that Engels's dialectical materialism is in danger of failing to really hold on to subjectivity in a way that doesn't just reduce it to a moment of totality and flux.
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