ABSTRACT
Slavoj Žižek, over the entire ongoing course of his sustained philosophical labors, wrestles again and again with versions of the perennial mind–body problem as itself one of the biggest of big questions in the history of Western philosophy. Likewise, he also repeatedly confronts the equally daunting and persistent freedom–determinism divide from various angles. As a single, massive summation of Žižek's current theoretical framework, Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism extends and develops his dialectical/transcendental materialist ways of treating these two fundamental philosophical topics. Therein, he does so primarily through staging encounters between, on one side, classical German philosophy (à la Immanuel Kant, J.G. Fichte, F.W.J. Schelling, and G.W.F. Hegel) and, on another side, today's empirical, experimental sciences of nature (especially quantum physics and biology).
