Adventures in Transcendental Materialism

Dialogues with Contemporary Thinkers

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

Av Adrian Johnston, University of New Mexico at Albuquerque) Johnston, Adrian (Distinguished Professor of Philosophy

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Adrian Johnston’s transcendental materialism offers a new theoretical approach to the issues of science vs religion and mind vs body. 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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Utgivningsdatum2014-03-17
Mått155 x 234 x 25 mm
Vikt658 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSpeculative Realism
Antal sidor376
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9780748673292

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Adrian Johnston is Distinguished Professor and Chair at the Department of Philosophy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA. He is the author of Time Driven (2005), Žižek’s Ontology (2008), Badiou, Žižek, and Political Transformations (2009), and Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism, Volume One (2013), all published by Northwestern University Press. He is the co-author, with Catherine Malabou, of Self and Emotional Life (Columbia University Press, 2013).

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.

Adrian Johnston strikes again. This new book is a most comprehensive and rigorous account of the contemporary philosophical debates concerning materialism and the necessity of its conceptual reinvention. In arguing his own original conceptual line, Johnston addresses most of the critical points in the contemporary materialism debate. And he does so with breathtaking ease, strolling among various key philosophical projects. This excellent book is a delightful must for everybody concerned with materialism and related matters.