Remains of Reason

Dominik Finkelde is a professor of epistemology and contemporary philosophy at the Munich School of Philosophy. His many books include Excessive Subjectivity: Kant, Hegel, Lacan, and the Foundation of Ethics.

• Foreword, by Eric Santner Prologue: Epistemology and Psychotheology I. Introduction II. In Conflict with the Negative 1- Trauma, Interpellation, and Enigmatic Signifiers 2- Freud and Kant: Illusions of the Mind and Illusions of Reason 3- Madness and the Loss of Language: Daniel P. Schreber and the Failure of Symbolic Investiture 4- Hegel: Negativity as a Structural Moment of the Concept 5- The Metaphysics of Contingency III. The Human Being and the Symbolic Order 1- In the Mirror, the Image of my Enemy 2- Lacan’s Graph of Interpellation 3- Infinite Desire IV. Ideology as Ontology 1- Sublime Objects 2- Fantasy Maintenance and Transgression 3- Longing for Leadership. The Time of Haste 4- Betrayal in Times of Overdetermination V. Enjoyment as an Ontological Factor 1- Jouissance 2- In Violation of the Pleasure Principle 3- The Thing List of Illustrations Bibliography

“Finkelde manages at the same time to effectively introduce and present Lacan's very significant development of contemporary thinking as well as to show the vast and deep implications of this thinking for contemporary issues. Original and engaging; there is nothing quite like it."—Paul Livingston, University of New Mexico