Prolegomena to any future materialism. / Adrian Johnston.

Author/creator Johnston, Adrian, 1974-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoEvanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press,
Descriptionxviii, 257 p. ; 23 cm.
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Portion of title Outcome of contemporary French philosophy
SeriesDiaeresis
Diaeresis. ^A1343796
Contents Introduction; "One surely will be found one day to make an ontology with what I am telling you": the road to a post-Lacanian materialism -- Part One. Jacques Lacan: between the sacred and the secular -- 1. Conflicted matter: the challenge of secularizing materialism -- 2. Turning the sciences inside out: revisiting "Science and truth" -- 3. On deep history and psychoanalysis: phylogenetic time in Lacanian theory --Part Two. Alain Badiou: between form and matter -- 4. What matter(s) in ontology: the Hebb-event and materialism split from within -- 5. Phantom of consistency: Kant troubles -- Part Three. Quentin Meillassoux: between faith and knowledge -- 6. The world before worlds: the ancestral and Badiou's anti-Kantian transcendentalism -- 7. Hume's revenge: a Dieu, Meillassoux? -- Postface: from critique to construction: toward a transcendental materialism.
General note"The present book is the first volume of a trilogy entitled Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism, to be followed by A Weak Nature Alone and Substance Also as Subject."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2012049692
ISBN9780810129122 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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