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Author Johnston, Adrian, 1974- author.

Title Adventures in transcendental materialism : dialogues with contemporary thinkers / Adrian Johnston.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2014]
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 358 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Speculative realism
Speculative realism.
Summary Since the early seventeenth century of Bacon, Gallileo and Descartes, 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 Žižek, Alain Badiou, Catherine Malabou, Jean-Claude Milner, Martin Hägglund, William Connolly, and Jane Bennett -- Back cover.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 324-350) and index.
Contents Title page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Series Editor's Preface; Introduction; Part I No Illusions: Hegel, Lacan, and Transcendental Materialism; 1 The Latest System-Program of German Idealism: From Tübingen to Today; 2 For a Thoughtful Ontology: Hegel's Immanent Critique of Spinoza; 3 "Off with their thistleheads!": Against Neo-Spinozism; 4 "Lacan, our Hegel": Psychoanalysis, Dialectics, and Materialisms; Part II Žižek: Dossier of an Ongoing Debate; 5 Hegel's Luther: Žižek's Materialist Hegelianism; 6 In Nature More Than Nature Itself: Žižek Between Naturalism and Supernaturalism.
7 Spirit Is a Quark: Quantum Physics with ŽižekPart III Transcendental Materialism's Significant Others: Psychoanalysis, Science, and Religion; 8 Life Terminable and Interminable: Hägglund and the Afterlife of the Afterlife; 9 The true Thing is the (w)hole: Freudian-Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Hägglund's Chronolibidinal Reading; 10 Antiphilosophy and Paraphilosophy: Milner, Badiou, and Antiphilosophical Lacanianism; 11 The Real Unconscious: Malabou, Soler, and Psychical Life After Lacan; 12 Toward a Grand Neuropolitics: Why I am Not an Immanent Naturalist or Vital Materialist; Bibliography.
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Subject Žižek, Slavoj.
Žižek, Slavoj, 1949-
Materialism.
Materialism.
Transcendentalism.
Transcendentalism.
Subjectivity.
Subjectivity.
Religion and science.
Religion and science.
Science -- Philosophy.
Science -- Philosophy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Johnston, Adrian, 1974- author. Adventures in transcendental materialism 0748673296 (OCoLC)851153437
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