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Zizek's Ontology - A Transcendental Materialist Theory of Subjectivity (Paperback, Fifth)
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Zizek's Ontology - A Transcendental Materialist Theory of Subjectivity (Paperback, Fifth)
Series: Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
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Slavoj Zižek 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 Zižek's work--an essential component in any
true appreciation of this unique thinker's accomplishment. His
central concern, Zižek 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 Zižek's efforts. His book charts the interlinked
ontology and theory of subjectivity constructed by Zižek at the
intersection of German idealism and Lacanian theory. Johnston also
uses Zižek'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 Zižek's philosophy can produce compelling
answers to today's most vexing and urgent questions as inherited
from the history of ideas.
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