Adventures in Transcendental Materialism: Dialogues with Contemporary Thinkers

ISBN-13: 9780748673292 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 376 str.

Adrian Johnston

Opis

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 Zizek, Alain Badiou, Catherine Malabou, Jean-Claude Milner, Martin Hagglund, William Connolly, and Jane Bennett.
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Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Introduction: Reports From Philosophical Fronts: Exchanges with Contemporaries Past and Present; Part I: No Illusions: Hegel, Lacan, and Transcendental Materialism; Chapter 1: The Latest System-Program of German Idealism: From Tübingen to Today; Chapter 2: For a Thoughtful Ontology: Hegel’s Immanent Critique of Spinoza; Chapter 3: “Off with their thistleheads!”: Against Neo-Spinozism; Chapter 4: “Lacan, our Hegel”: Psychoanalysis, Dialectics, and Materialisms; Part II: Žižek: Dossier of an Ongoing Debate; Chapter 5: Hegel’s Luther: Žižek’s Materialist Hegelianism; Chapter 6: In Nature More Than Nature Itself: Žižek Between Naturalism and Supernaturalism; Chapter 7: Spirit Is a Quark: Quantum Physics with Žižek; Part III: Transcendental Materialism’s Significant Others: Psychoanalysis, Science, and Religion; Chapter 8: Life Terminable and Interminable: Hägglund and the Afterlife of the Afterlife; Chapter 9: The true Thing is the (w)hole: Freudian-Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Hägglund’s Chronolibidinal Reading; Chapter 10: Antiphilosophy and Paraphilosophy: Milner, Badiou, and Antiphilosophical Lacanianism; Chapter 11: The Real Unconscious: Malabou, Soler, and Psychical Life After Lacan; Chapter 12: Toward a Grand Neuropolitics: Why I am not an immanent naturalist or vital materialist; Works Cited.