Objective Fictions

Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Marxism

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

Av Adrian Johnston, Boštjan Nedoh, Alenka Zupančič, University of New Mexico at Albuquerque) Johnston, Adrian (Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Slovenia.) Nedoh, Bostjan (Research Fellow, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute of Philosophy, Ljubljana, Slovenia) Zupancic, Alenka (Research Advisor at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute of Philosophy, Ljubljana, Bostjan Nedoh, Alenka Zupancic

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Rethinks objectivity and fiction in contemporary philosophy, psychoanalysis and Marxism beyond the realism nominalism divideRethinks the concept of objectivity through its relation to fiction beyond their mere oppositionConceptualises 'objective fictions'Highlights a shared background underpinning realist and nominalist approaches to the relation between subjectivity and objectivityRevitalises modern/contemporary philosophical currents, psychoanalytic theory and the Marxist critique of political economy beyond the realism-nominalism divideIncludes contributions from a mix of renowned thinkers and from the new generation, including Slavoj i ek, Mladen Dolar, Frank Ruda and Samo Tom i?Relying on contemporary continental philosophy, psychoanalytic theory and the Marxist tradition, this volume moves beyond the deadlock between nominalism and realism. It rethinks the relationship between objectivity and fiction through engaging with a series of 'objective fictions', including fetishes, semblances, lies, rumours, sophistry, fantasies, and conspiracy theories, among other phenomena. What all these phenomena exhibit are paradoxical entanglements of subjectivity with objectivity and of fiction with truth.When it comes to questions of objectivity in current philosophical debates and public discourse, we are witnessing the re-emergence and growing importance of two classical, opposed approaches: nominalism and (metaphysical) realism. Today's nominalist stances, by absolutizing intersubjectivity, are moving towards the abandonment of the very notion of truth and objective reality. By contrast, today's realist positions, including those bound up with scientific discourse, insist on the category of the object-in-itself as irreducible to any kind of subjective mediation. However, despite their seeming mutual exclusivity, both approaches share fundamental presuppositions, namely, those of neat separations between the spheres of subjectivity and objectivity as well as between the realms of fiction and truth.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-11-15
Mått156 x 234 x 21 mm
Vikt438 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor272
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474489331

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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). Boštjan Nedoh is a Research Fellow at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute of Philosophy, Ljubljana, Slovenia. He has published extensively on Lacanian psychoanalysis, Italian biopolitical theory and contemporary French philosophy. Alenka Zupančič is a Research Advisor at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute of Philosophy, Ljubljana, Slovenia, and Professor at the European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland.

AcknowledgmentsAdrian Johnston, Boštjan Nedoh and Alenka Zupančic: Introduction. Beyond the Nominalism-Realism Divide: Objective Fictions from Bentham Through Marx to LacanChapter 1. Slavoj Žižek: Marx’s Theory of FictionsChapter 2. Boštjan Nedoh: Is Surplus Value Structured Like an Anamorphosis? Marx, Lacan, and the Structure of Objective FictionChapter 3. Adrian Johnston: Shades of Green: Lacan and Capitalism’s VeilsChapter 4. Samo Tomšič: From the Orderly World to the Polluted UnworldChapter 5. Cara S. Greene: The Genesis of a False Dichotomy: A Critique of Conceptual AlienationChapter 6. Aleš Bunta: Nietzsche’s Critique of Objectivity and It’s ‘Tools’Chapter 7. Peter Klepec: Tips and Tricks: Remarks on the Debate Between Badiou and Cassin on ‘Sophistics’Chapter 8. Mladen Dolar: On Rumors, Gossip and Related MattersChapter 9. Paul M. Livingston: ‘There is no such thing as the subject that thinks’: Wittgenstein and Lacan on truth and the subjectChapter 10. Amanda Holmes: The Awful Truth: Games and their Relation to the UnconsciousChapter 11. Tadej Troha: The Objective Construction: Freud and the Primal SceneChapter 12. Frank Ruda: (From the Lie in the Closed World to) Lying in An Infinite UniverseChapter 13. Alenka Zupančič: A Short Essay on Conspiracy Theories