Parallax: The Dialectics of Mind and World

Parallax, or the change in the position of an object viewed
along two different lines of sight and more precisely, the assumption that
this adjustment is not only due to a change of focus, but a change in that
object’s ontological status has been a key philosophical concept throughout
history.

Building upon Slavoj Zizek’s The Parallax View, this volume shows how parallax is used as a
figure of thought that proves how the incompatibility between the physical
and the theoretical touches not only upon the ontological, but also politics
and aesthetics. With articles written by internationally renowned
philosophers such as Frank Ruda, Graham Harman, Paul Livingston and Zizek
himself, this book shows how modes of parallax remain in numerous modern
theoretical disciplines, such as the Marxian parallax in the critique of
political economy and politics; and the Hegelian parallax in the concept of
the work of art, while also being important to debates surrounding
speculative realism and dialectical materialism. Spanning philosophy, parallax
is then a rich and fruitful concept that can illuminate the studies of those
working in epistemology, ontology, German Idealism, political philosophy and
critical theory.