Adventures in Transcendental Materialism
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Adventures in Transcendental Materialism

Dialogues with Contemporary Thinkers

  1. 377 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Adventures in Transcendental Materialism

Dialogues with Contemporary Thinkers

About this book

Adrian Johnston's transcendental materialism offers a new theoretical approach to the issues of science vs religion and mind vs body. 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 Zizek, Alain Badiou, Catherine Malabou, Jean-Claude Milner, Martin Hagglund, William Connolly and Jane Bennett.

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Table of contents

  1. Title page
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Series Editor’s Preface
  6. Introduction
  7. Part I No Illusions: Hegel, Lacan, and Transcendental Materialism
  8. 1 The Latest System-Program of German Idealism: From TĂźbingen to Today
  9. 2 For a Thoughtful Ontology: Hegel’s Immanent Critique of Spinoza
  10. 3 “Off with their thistleheads!”: Against Neo-Spinozism
  11. 4 “Lacan, our Hegel”: Psychoanalysis, Dialectics, and Materialisms
  12. Part II ŽiŞek: Dossier of an Ongoing Debate
  13. 5 Hegel’s Luther: Žižek’s Materialist Hegelianism
  14. 6 In Nature More Than Nature Itself: ŽiŞek Between Naturalism and Supernaturalism
  15. 7 Spirit Is a Quark: Quantum Physics with ŽiŞek
  16. Part III Transcendental Materialism’s Significant Others: Psychoanalysis, Science, and Religion
  17. 8 Life Terminable and Interminable: Hägglund and the Afterlife of the Afterlife
  18. 9 The true Thing is the (w)hole: Freudian-Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Hägglund’s Chronolibidinal Reading
  19. 10 Antiphilosophy and Paraphilosophy: Milner, Badiou, and Antiphilosophical Lacanianism
  20. 11 The Real Unconscious: Malabou, Soler, and Psychical Life After Lacan
  21. 12 Toward a Grand Neuropolitics: Why I am Not an Immanent Naturalist or Vital Materialist
  22. Bibliography
  23. Index