A panoramic view of the universe must begin with the intensity of a singular political moment. In "Quantum History," Slavoj Žižek combines Hegelian dialectics, Lacan's psychoanalysis, and quantum mechanics to rethink history, reality, and political possibility. Taking up Lenin's challenge to radically reconsider materialism after each major scientific discovery, and rejecting the recent tendency to attribute a vague spiritual turn to wave mechanics, Žižek adopts the philosophical implications of quantum mechanics with characteristic insight and vitality. Drawing on central themes of the holographic universe, non-periodicity, and the collapse of superpositions, Žižek develops a quantum-inspired ontology that revolutionizes Hegelian and Heideggerian historical materialism — and demands a fierce, often darkly humorous examination of the possibilities for radical liberating actions today. "Quantum History" guides the reader from the absolute contradiction of primal emptiness through quantum oscillations into our daily reality, incorporating Lacan and Deleuze, Roubeli and Schelling, opera, cinema, sex, and war. Žižek is at his sharpest, most melancholic, and provocative state as he demonstrates that there is no way to detach ourselves from the fabric of history, no neutral position from which the mechanisms of the world can be observed transparently — we must act from a random, complex, and incomprehensible political moment, with sorrow and doubt, but decisively.