Our period is one of crisis. Against the growing hegemony of posthumanism as the ideology of twenty-first century capitalism, Matthew Flisfeder disrupts our received wisdoms about our time by showing how dialectical humanism can better conceptualize our understanding of the present. The Hysterical Sublime is an essential theoretical intervention which everyone must read

Agon Hamza, Co-author of Reading Hegel (2021)

Flisfeder's book is the rare case of a work which appears at the right moment doing the right thing. The Hysterical Sublime conclusively demonstrates that the ongoing global crisis of the Anthropocene is at its most fundamental not just an economic or social crisis but a properly metaphysical crisis centering on the very core human subjectivity: it is not enough just do what is required from us, we have to rethink the entire frame of our posthuman situation in order to arrive at an adequate cognitive mapping of our predicament in 21st century capitalism. And what better way to do this than to begin with Flisfeder's magnificent book!

Slavoj Žižek, author of Zero Point (2025), Against Progress (2024) and Christian Atheism (2024), all published by Bloomsbury