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Author Johnston, Adrian, 1974- author.

Title Adventures in transcendental materialism : dialogues with contemporary thinkers / Adrian Johnston
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 358 pages)
Series Speculative realism
Speculative realism.
Contents Title page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Series Editor's Preface; Introduction; Part I No Illusions: Hegel, Lacan, and Transcendental Materialism; 1 The Latest System-Program of German Idealism: From Tübingen to Today; 2 For a Thoughtful Ontology: Hegel's Immanent Critique of Spinoza; 3 "Off with their thistleheads!": Against Neo-Spinozism; 4 "Lacan, our Hegel": Psychoanalysis, Dialectics, and Materialisms; Part II Žižek: Dossier of an Ongoing Debate; 5 Hegel's Luther: Žižek's Materialist Hegelianism; 6 In Nature More Than Nature Itself: Žižek Between Naturalism and Supernaturalism
7 Spirit Is a Quark: Quantum Physics with ŽižekPart III Transcendental Materialism's Significant Others: Psychoanalysis, Science, and Religion; 8 Life Terminable and Interminable: Hägglund and the Afterlife of the Afterlife; 9 The true Thing is the (w)hole: Freudian-Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Hägglund's Chronolibidinal Reading; 10 Antiphilosophy and Paraphilosophy: Milner, Badiou, and Antiphilosophical Lacanianism; 11 The Real Unconscious: Malabou, Soler, and Psychical Life After Lacan; 12 Toward a Grand Neuropolitics: Why I am Not an Immanent Naturalist or Vital Materialist; Bibliography
Summary Since Bacon, Gallileo and Descartes in the early 17th century, the relations between science and religion as well as mind and body have remained volatile fault lines of conflict. The controversies surrounding these relations are as alive and pressing now as at any point over the course of the past four centuries. Adrian Johnston's transcendental materialism offers a new theoretical approach to these issues. Arming himself with resources provided by German idealism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, the life sciences and contemporary philosophical developments, Johnston formulates an account of subjectivity that, although being both materialist and naturalist, does full justice to human beings as irreducible to natural matter alone. At the same time he argues against relapses into idealisms, dualisms and spiritualisms. Adventures in Transcendental Materialism elaborates Johnston's position through critical engagements with some of today's most important thinkers including Slavoj ÅưiÅℓek, Alain Badiou, Catherine Malabou, Jean-Claude Milner, Martin HÃÞgglund, William Connolly, and Jane Bennett. Key Features. Critically engages with some of today's most important thinkers, including Slavoj ÅưiÅℓek, Alain Badiou, Catherine Malabou, Jean-Claude Milner, Martin HÃÞgglund, William Connolly and Jane Bennett Johnston is a collaborator and interlocutor with Badiou, ÅưiÅℓek, and Malabou, and this book contains material from ongoing debates between him and these three authors Combines Continental-style philosophy with the empirical sciences Split into 3 parts: I. ÅưiÅℓek: Dossier of an Ongoing Debate; II. Psychoanalysis: The Unconscious between Philosophy, Science and Religion; III. Politics: True and False Utopias
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 324-350) and index
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SUBJECT Žižek, Slavoj 1949- gnd
Subject Materialism.
Transcendentalism.
Subjectivity.
Religion and science.
Science -- Philosophy.
Religion and Science
transcendentalism.
materialism (philosophical movement)
PHILOSOPHY -- Mind & Body.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Personality.
PHILOSOPHY -- General.
Materialism
Religion and science
Science -- Philosophy
Subjectivity
Transcendentalism
Materialismus
Transzendentalphilosophie
Materialisme.
Subjectivisme.
Naturalisme (filosofie)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780748673308
074867330X