Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism: A Weak Nature Alone

ISBN-13: 9780810140622 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 408 str.

Adrian Johnston

Opis

Adrian Johnston's trilogy forges a thoroughly materialist yet antireductive theory of subjectivity. In this second volume, A Weak Nature Alone, Johnston focuses on the philosophy of nature required for such a theory.

Spis treści

Preface. Repeating Engels: Renewing the Cause of the Materialist Wager for the Twenty-First Century
Introduction: Tales of the Endangered Dead: Historical Essays in an Underground Current of Naturalism
Part I. The Voiding of Weak Nature: The Transcendental Materialist Kernels of Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature Chapter 1. Revivifying Hegel: Breathing New Life into Naturphilosophie
2. From Bern to Jena: The Oldest Agenda of Hegelianism
3. The Self-Subversion of Modern Science: Scientific Reason and the Phenomenology of Spirit
4. Real Genesis: From the Natural to the Logical, and Back Again
5. The Dialectics of Impotent Nature: Substance and Subject in the System of the Mature Hegel
Part II. From Scientific Socialism to Socialist Science: The Dialectics of Nature Then and Now
6. The Specter of Engels: The Obscured History of Marxism’s Philosophies of Science
7. This is orthodox Marxism: The Shared Materialist Weltanschauung of Marx and Engels
8. The Three Fathers of Naturdialektitk: Engels, Dietzgen, Lenin
9. Breaking and Bridging: Althusserian Syntheses of Historical and Dialectical Materialisms
10. Western Marxism’s Self-Critique: Lukács’s Final Ontological Verdict
Part III. Negativity Mystical and Material: Privative Causality from Pico Della Mirandola to Lacan
11. The Privation of Science: Lacking Causes
12. There is absence, and then there are absences: Back to Kant, Forward to Lacan, and Onward
13. The Night of the Living World: The Missing Link of the Anorganic
14. Split Brain, Split Subject: Critically Approaching a Possible Lacanian Neuro-Psychoanalysis
15. The Myth of the Non-Given: The Positive Genesis of the Negative
Part IV. Second Natures in Dappled Worlds: Neo-Hegelianism and Philosophy of Science in the Analytic Tradition
16. Lacan avec McDowell: The Unresolved Problem of Naturalism
17. From the Subjectivity of Transcendental Idealism to the Objectivity of Absolute Idealism: Returning to Kant and Hegel
18. Between Bald Naturalism and Rampant Platonism: Relaxing Into McDowell’s Third Way
19. More is      less: Psychoanalysis, Science, and the Decompletion of First Nature
20. Piebald Naturalism: Freedom in   Cartwright’s Image of Nature
Postface. Points of Forced Freedom: Eleven (More) Theses on Materialism
Notes
Bibliography
Index