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Slavoj Žižek 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 Žižek’s work—an essential component in any true appreciation of this unique thinker’s accomplishment. His central concern, Žižek 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 Žižek’s efforts. His book charts the interlinked ontology and theory of subjectivity constructed by Žižek at the intersection of German idealism and Lacanian theory. Johnston also uses Žižek’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 Žižek’s philosophy can produce compelling answers to today’s most vexing and urgent questions as inherited from the history of ideas.

Ontology --- Subjectivity. --- Transcendentalism. --- Materialism. --- Idealism, German. --- Ontologie --- Subjectivité --- Transcendantalisme --- Matérialisme --- Idéalisme allemand --- Zizek, Slavoj. --- Subjectivité --- Matérialisme --- Idéalisme allemand --- Žižek, Slavoj. --- Idealism, German --- Materialism --- Subjectivity --- Transcendentalism --- Philosophy --- Philosophy, Modern --- Idealism --- Subjectivism --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Relativity --- Physicalism --- Animism --- Positivism --- Dualism --- Mechanism (Philosophy) --- Monism --- Realism --- German idealism --- Žižek, Slavoj --- Žižek, Slavoj.

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In 2012, philosopher and public intellectual Slavoj Žižek published what arguably is his magnum opus, the one-thousand-page tome Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism. A sizable sequel appeared in 2014, Absolute Recoil: Towards a New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism. In these two books, Žižek returns to the German idealist G. W. F. Hegel in order to forge a new materialism for the twenty-first century. Žižek's reinvention of Hegelian dialectics explores perennial and contemporary concerns: humanity's relations with nature, the place of human freedom, the limits of rationality, the roles of spirituality and religion, and the prospects for radical sociopolitical change.In A New German Idealism, Adrian Johnston offers a first-of-its-kind sustained critical response to Less Than Nothing and Absolute Recoil. Johnston, a leading authority on and interlocutor of Žižek, assesses the recent return to Hegel against the backdrop of Kantian and post-Kantian German idealism. He also presents alternate reconstructions of Hegel's positions that differ in important respects from Žižek's version of dialectical materialism. In particular, Johnston criticizes Žižek's deviations from the secular naturalism and Enlightenment optimism of his chosen sources of inspiration: not only Hegel, but Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud too. In response, Johnston develops what he calls transcendental materialism, an antireductive and leftist materialism capable of preserving and advancing the core legacies of the Hegelian, Marxian, and Freudian traditions central to Žižek

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, --- Materializm dialektyczny. --- Žižek, Slavoj, --- Dialectical materialism. --- Žižek, Slavoj.

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Critically engaging with thinkers including Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, Catherine Malabou, Jean-Claude Milner, Martin Hagglund, William Connolly and Jane Bennett, Johnston formulates a materialist and naturalist account of subjectivity that does full justice to human beings as irreducible to natural matter alone.

Materialism. --- Transcendentalism. --- Philosophy --- Philosophy, Modern --- Idealism --- Physicalism --- Animism --- Positivism --- Dualism --- Mechanism (Philosophy) --- Monism --- Realism --- Subjectivity. --- Religion and science. --- Science --- PHILOSOPHY --- PSYCHOLOGY --- Materialismus. --- Transzendentalphilosophie. --- Materialisme. --- Subjectivisme. --- Naturalisme (filosofie). --- Philosophy. --- Mind & Body. --- Personality. --- General. --- Žižek, Slavoj,

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This book offers readers a uniquely detailed engagement with the ideas of legendary French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. The Freudian Thing is one of Lacan's most important texts, wherein he explains the significance and stakes of his "return to Freud" as a passionate defence of Freud's disturbing, epoch-making discovery of the unconscious, against misrepresentations and criticisms of it. However, Lacan is characteristically cryptic in The Freudian Thing. The combination of his writing style and vast range of references renders much of his thinking inaccessible to all but a narrow circle of scholarly specialists. Johnston's Irrepressible Truth opens up the universe of Lacanian psychoanalysis to much wider audiences by furnishing a sentence-by-sentence interpretive unpacking of this pivotal 1955 essay. In so doing, Johnston reveals the precision, rigor, and soundness of Lacan's teachings.

Classical Philosophy. --- Identity (Psychology). --- Philosophy of Mind. --- Philosophy of mind. --- Philosophy, Ancient. --- Psychoanalysis. --- Psychological Methods/Evaluation. --- Psychological measurement. --- Psychology-Methodology. --- Psychosocial Studies. --- Self and Identity. --- Self. --- Social psychology.

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This book offers readers a uniquely detailed engagement with the ideas of legendary French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. The Freudian Thing is one of Lacan’s most important texts, wherein he explains the significance and stakes of his “return to Freud” as a passionate defence of Freud’s disturbing, epoch-making discovery of the unconscious, against misrepresentations and criticisms of it. However, Lacan is characteristically cryptic in The Freudian Thing. The combination of his writing style and vast range of references renders much of his thinking inaccessible to all but a narrow circle of scholarly specialists. Johnston’s Irrepressible Truth opens up the universe of Lacanian psychoanalysis to much wider audiences by furnishing a sentence-by-sentence interpretive unpacking of this pivotal 1955 essay. In so doing, Johnston reveals the precision, rigor, and soundness of Lacan’s teachings.

Philosophy --- Psychology --- History of philosophy --- Social psychology --- Higher education --- Psychiatry --- HO (hoger onderwijs) --- psychosociale wetenschappen --- psychiatrie --- psychologie --- meetinstrumenten (psychologie) --- filosofie --- persoonlijkheidsleer