Abyss of Freedom

"Let the profound become apparent, and the apparent become profound" - this book is an important work of Žižek, the most active Hegelian thinker in the international academic community since the 1990s. The appendix of this book, "World Era", is an unpublished manuscript of the famous German philosopher Schelling. It was published for the first time in China and has important academic value. How far apart is profound thought from popular wisdom? Some would say it's thousands of miles away, some would say it's just one step. However, whether it is thousands of miles away or just one step, trying to cross the distance between them is a labor-intensive and labor-intensive task. Because it is well known that the simplest principles are often the most difficult to explain theoretically, and the most difficult conclusions are always the simplest. The key issue is often not the initial starting point and the final conclusion, but the process full of uncertainty. All richness, profundity or simplicity lies in the process. Undoubtedly, Žižek, the author of "The Abyss of Freedom", is an undisputed master of time travel. Holding the magic wand of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, he traveled from Schelling's difficult theory of time to explain the creation of the world to the jungle of various contemporary theories and popular wisdom, bringing Germany Philosophical theories such as classical philosophy, psychoanalysis, Marxism, existential philosophy, and deconstruction philosophy are integrated with popular wisdom such as literary stories, computer networks, movies, and jokes. It is both serious and playful, making the profound become clear and the obvious become profound.