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What do we know about Hegel? What do we know about Marx? What do we know about democracy and totalitarianism? Communism and psychoanalysis? What do we know that isn't a platitude that we've heard a thousand times - or a self-satisfied certainty? Through his brilliant reading of Hegel, Slavoj Zizek - one of the most provocative and widely-read thinkers of our time - upends our traditional understanding, dynamites every cliche and undermines every conviction in order to clear the ground for new ways of answering these questions. When Lacan described Hegel as the 'most sublime hysteric', he was referring to the way that the hysteric asks questions because he experiences his own desire as if it were the Other's desire. In the dialectical process, the question asked of the Other is resolved through a reflexive turn in which the question begins to function as its own answer. We had made Hegel into the theorist of abstraction and reaction, but by reading Hegel with Lacan, Zizek unveils a Hegel of the concrete and of revolution - his own, and the one to come. This early and dazzlingly original work by Zizek offers a unique insight into the ideas which have since become hallmarks of his mature thought. It will be of great interest to anyone interested in critical theory, philosophy and contemporary social thought.

Hegel, Georg W.F. --- Lacan, Jacques --- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, --- Lacan, Jacques, --- Psychoanalysis and philosophy. --- Filosofie. --- Absolute, The --- Psychological aspects --- History. --- Influence. --- Sources.

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The idea of infinity plays a crucial role in our understanding of the universe, with the infinite spacetime continuum perhaps the best-known example - but is spacetime really continuous? Throughout the history of science, many have felt that the continuum model is an unphysical idealization, and that spacetime should be thought of as 'quantized' at the smallest of scales. Combining novel conceptual analysis, a fresh historical perspective, and concrete physical examples, this unique book tells the story of the search for the fundamental unit of length in modern physics, from early classical electrodynamics to current approaches to quantum gravity. Novel philosophical theses, with direct implications for theoretical physics research, are presented and defended in an accessible format that avoids complex mathematics. Blending history, philosophy, and theoretical physics, this refreshing outlook on the nature of spacetime sheds light on one of the most thought-provoking topics in modern physics.

Standards of length. --- Physical constants. --- Absolute quantities --- Constants, Physical --- Fundamental constants, Physical --- Fundamental physical constants --- Physical quantities --- Quantities, Absolute --- Quantities, Physical --- Units of measurement --- Length, Standards of --- Weights and measures --- Length measurement --- Space and time --- Length measurement. --- Philosophy. --- Space of more than three dimensions --- Space-time --- Space-time continuum --- Space-times --- Spacetime --- Time and space --- Fourth dimension --- Infinite --- Metaphysics --- Philosophy --- Space sciences --- Time --- Beginning --- Hyperspace --- Relativity (Physics) --- Linear measurement --- Measurement of length --- Dimensions --- Standards of length --- Philosophy of science

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The absolute was one of the most significant philosophical concepts in the early nineteenth century, particularly for the German romantics. Its exact meaning and its role within philosophical romanticism remain, however, a highly contested topic among contemporary scholars. In The Romantic Absolute, Dalia Nassar offers an illuminating new assessment of the romantics and their understanding of the absolute. In doing so, she fills an important gap in the history of philosophy, especially with respect to the crucial period between Kant and Hegel. Scholars today interpret philosophical romanticism along two competing lines: one emphasizes the romantics' concern with epistemology, the other their concern with metaphysics. Through careful textual analysis and systematic reconstruction of the work of three major romantics-Novalis, Friedrich Schlegel, and Friedrich Schelling-Nassar shows that neither interpretation is fully satisfying. Rather, she argues, one needs to approach the absolute from both perspectives. Rescuing these philosophers from frequent misunderstanding, and even dismissal, she articulates not only a new angle on the philosophical foundations of romanticism but on the meaning and significance of the notion of the absolute itself.

History of philosophy --- Novalis --- Schelling, von, Friedrich W.J. --- Schlegel, Friedrich --- Germany --- Absolute, The --- Philosophy, German --- German philosophy --- Metaphysics --- Ontology --- One (The One in philosophy) --- History --- Novalis, --- von Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph --- Schlegel, Friedrich von, --- Schlegel, Friedrich von --- Shlegelʹ, Fridrikh --- Schlegel, Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von --- Von Schlegel, Karl Wilhelm Friedrich --- Schlegel, Federico --- Schlegel, Frederick von --- Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von --- Schelling, F. W. J. --- Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph --- Schelling, Federico Guillermo José --- Novalis, Friedrich --- von Hardenberg, Friedrich Ludwig, --- Hardenberg, Friedrich, --- Hardenberg, Georg Friedrich Philipp, --- Hardenberg, Georg Philipp Friedrich von, --- Absolute, The. --- Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von, --- the absolute, germany, romanticism, philosophy, being, knowing, kant, hegel, epistemology, metaphysics, friedrich schelling, schlegel, novalis, subjectivity, self, hemsterhuis, whole, nature, idealism, ontology, transcendentalism, becoming, freedom, romantic novel, spinoza, fichte, art, identity, nonfiction, goethe, jacobi, von hardenberg, mind, spirit.

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What do hedge funds really do? These lightly regulated funds continually innovate new investing and trading strategies to take advantage of temporary mispricing of assets (when their market price deviates from their intrinsic value). These techniques are shrouded in mystery, which permits hedge fund managers to charge exceptionally high fees. While the details of each fund's approach are carefully guarded trade secrets, this book draws the curtain back on the core building blocks of many hedge fund strategies.

Hedge funds. --- Portfolio management. --- absolute return --- active investment management --- arbitrage --- capital asset pricing model --- CAPM --- derivatives --- exchange traded funds --- ETF --- fat tails --- finance --- hedge funds --- hedging --- high-frequency trading --- HFT --- investing --- investment management --- long/short --- modern portfolio theory --- MPT --- optimization --- quant --- quantitative trading strategies --- portfolio construction --- portfolio management --- portfolio optimization --- trading --- trading strategies --- Wall Street

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In 1920, Pierre Fatou expressed the conjecture that--except for special cases--all critical points of a rational map of the Riemann sphere tend to periodic orbits under iteration. This conjecture remains the main open problem in the dynamics of iterated maps. For the logistic family x- ax(1-x), it can be interpreted to mean that for a dense set of parameters "a," an attracting periodic orbit exists. The same question appears naturally in science, where the logistic family is used to construct models in physics, ecology, and economics. In this book, Jacek Graczyk and Grzegorz Swiatek provide a rigorous proof of the Real Fatou Conjecture. In spite of the apparently elementary nature of the problem, its solution requires advanced tools of complex analysis. The authors have written a self-contained and complete version of the argument, accessible to someone with no knowledge of complex dynamics and only basic familiarity with interval maps. The book will thus be useful to specialists in real dynamics as well as to graduate students.

Geodesics (Mathematics) --- Polynomials. --- Mappings (Mathematics) --- Maps (Mathematics) --- Functions --- Functions, Continuous --- Topology --- Transformations (Mathematics) --- Algebra --- Geometry, Differential --- Global analysis (Mathematics) --- Mathematics --- Absolute value. --- Affine transformation. --- Algebraic function. --- Analytic continuation. --- Analytic function. --- Arithmetic. --- Automorphism. --- Big O notation. --- Bounded set (topological vector space). --- C0. --- Calculation. --- Canonical map. --- Change of variables. --- Chebyshev polynomials. --- Combinatorics. --- Commutative property. --- Complex number. --- Complex plane. --- Complex quadratic polynomial. --- Conformal map. --- Conjecture. --- Conjugacy class. --- Conjugate points. --- Connected component (graph theory). --- Connected space. --- Continuous function. --- Corollary. --- Covering space. --- Critical point (mathematics). --- Dense set. --- Derivative. --- Diffeomorphism. --- Dimension. --- Disjoint sets. --- Disjoint union. --- Disk (mathematics). --- Equicontinuity. --- Estimation. --- Existential quantification. --- Fibonacci. --- Functional equation. --- Fundamental domain. --- Generalization. --- Great-circle distance. --- Hausdorff distance. --- Holomorphic function. --- Homeomorphism. --- Homotopy. --- Hyperbolic function. --- Imaginary number. --- Implicit function theorem. --- Injective function. --- Integer. --- Intermediate value theorem. --- Interval (mathematics). --- Inverse function. --- Irreducible polynomial. --- Iteration. --- Jordan curve theorem. --- Julia set. --- Limit of a sequence. --- Linear map. --- Local diffeomorphism. --- Mathematical induction. --- Mathematical proof. --- Maxima and minima. --- Meromorphic function. --- Moduli (physics). --- Monomial. --- Monotonic function. --- Natural number. --- Neighbourhood (mathematics). --- Open set. --- Parameter. --- Periodic function. --- Periodic point. --- Phase space. --- Point at infinity. --- Polynomial. --- Projection (mathematics). --- Quadratic function. --- Quadratic. --- Quasiconformal mapping. --- Renormalization. --- Riemann sphere. --- Riemann surface. --- Schwarzian derivative. --- Scientific notation. --- Subsequence. --- Theorem. --- Theory. --- Topological conjugacy. --- Topological entropy. --- Topology. --- Union (set theory). --- Unit circle. --- Unit disk. --- Upper and lower bounds. --- Upper half-plane. --- Z0.