Adventures in Transcendental Materialism : : Dialogues with Contemporary Thinkers / / Adrian Johnston.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Johnston, Adrian,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2021]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Speculative Realism : SPRE
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (376 p.)

A new materialist theory of subjectivity mobilising philosophy, psychoanalysis, politics and scienceRead and download the series editor's preface and the introduction to Adventures in Transcendental Materialism for free now (pdf)Read a Q&A between the author, Adrian Johnston, and Speculative Realism series editor Graham Harman (pdf)Since Bacon, Gallileo and Descartes in the early 17th century, 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.Key FeaturesCritically engages with some of today's most important thinkers, including Slavoj Žižek, Alain Badiou, Catherine Malabou, Jean-Claude Milner, Martin Hägglund, William Connolly and Jane BennettJohnston is a collaborator and interlocutor with Badiou, Žižek, and Malabou, and this book contains material from ongoing debates between him and these three authorsCombines Continental-style philosophy with the empirical sciencesSplit into 3 parts: I. Žižek: Dossier of an Ongoing Debate; II. Psychoanalysis: The Unconscious between Philosophy, Science and Religion; III. Politics: True and False Utopias"

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Series Editor's Preface -- Introduction: Reports From Philosophical Fronts: Exchanges with Contemporaries Past and Present -- 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 Žižek -- Part 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 -- Index