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Adrian Johnston - Zizek´s Ontology: A Transcendental Materialist Theory of Subjectivity - 9780810124561 - V9780810124561
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Zizek´s Ontology: A Transcendental Materialist Theory of Subjectivity

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Description for Zizek´s Ontology: A Transcendental Materialist Theory of Subjectivity Paperback. Slavoj Zizek is an important philosopher, known chiefly for his theoretical explorations of popular culture and contemporary politics. This book focuses on the philosophical core of Zizek's work. It addresses two philosophical problems: the relationship of mind and body, and the nature of human freedom. Series: Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ; JMAF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 556.
Slavoj Zizek is one of the most interesting and important philosophers working today, known chiefly for his theoretical explorations of popular culture and contemporary politics. This book focuses on the generally neglected and often overshadowed philosophical core of Zizek's work - an essential component in any true appreciation of this unique thinker's accomplishment. His central concern, Zizek has proclaimed, is to use psychoanalysis (especially the teachings of Jacques Lacan) to redeploy the insights of late-modern German philosophy, in particular, the thought of Kant, Schelling, and Hegel. By taking this avowal seriously, Adrian Johnston finally clarifies the philosophical project underlying Zizek's efforts. His book charts the interlinked ontology and theory of subjectivity constructed by Zizek at the intersection of German idealism and Lacanian theory. Johnston also uses Zizek's combination of philosophy and psychoanalysis to address two perennial philosophical problems: the relationship of mind and body, and the nature of human freedom.By bringing together the past two centuries of European philosophy, psychoanalytic metapsychology, and cutting-edge work in the natural sciences, Johnston develops a transcendental materialist theory of subjectivity - in short, an account of how more-than-material forms of subjectivity can emerge from a corporeal being. His work shows how an engagement with Zizek's philosophy can produce compelling answers to today's most vexing and urgent questions as inherited from the history of ideas.

Product Details

Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810124561
SKU
V9780810124561
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About Adrian Johnston
Adrian Johnston is assistant professor of philosophy at the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque.

Reviews for Zizek´s Ontology: A Transcendental Materialist Theory of Subjectivity
It is always difficult to read books about oneself; with Johnston's book, my anxiety was even stronger than usual. While reading it, I often had the uncanny feeling of being confronted by a line of argumentation which fits better than my own texts what I am struggling to formulate - as if he is the original and I am a copy. He certainly knows how to read me. The majority of my critics concentrate on popular culture, politics, and ideology in my work - Johnston goes directly to its transcendental-ontological nucleus. This is not a book on me, but a book, critical of me, on what both Johnston and I consider the core of our philosophical predicament. I thus advise the reader to forget about me and to enjoy the hard work of penetrating the obscure dimension of the philosophical foundations of psychoanalysis. - Slavoj Zizek

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