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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465316403321

Autore

Themi Tim <1975->

Titolo

Lacan's ethics and Nietzsche's critique of platonism / / Tim Themi ; cover art courtesy of Thanasi Bakatsoulas ; production by Eileen Nizer ; marketing by Anne Valentine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, New York : , : SUNY Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4384-5041-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 p.)

Collana

SUNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature

Disciplina

170

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis and philosophy

Psychoanalysis and culture

Platonists

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""1. The Deflationary Ontology of Lacan and Nietzsche""; ""1.1 Lacan�s Tripartite Schema with Nietzsche�s Critique of Plato�s Good""; ""1.2 Lacan�s Freudian Thing in the Critique of Aristotle�s Good""; ""2. Distinguishing Weak Sublimation From the Strong""; ""2.1 The Promise of Sublimation and Its Discontents""; ""2.2 Lacan�s Treatment of Sublimation""; ""2.3 Nietzsche�s Distinction between Weak and Strong""; ""3. Before the Good: Strong Ethics in Sophocles� Antigone""

""3.1 Creon against Antigone: In the Name of the Good""""3.2 Antigone against Creon: Lacan, the Beautiful, a Second Death""; ""3.3 Before the Good: Nietzsche�s Strong Dionysian Catharsis""; ""4. Birth of the Good: Weak Ethics In Socrates� Alcibiades""; ""4.1 Lacan�s Analysis of Symposium Speeches Prior to Socrates""; ""4.2 The Speech of Socrates: Denaturalizing with Diotima""; ""4.3 Enter Alcibiades: Renaturalizing with Object Agalma""; ""5. God of the Good: Christocentric Oedipal Morality""; ""5.1 The Deaths of God in Lacan�s Seminar VII""


""5.2 Recapitulating a Decade Later in Seminar XVII""""5.3 The Nietzschean Appraisal from The Anti-Christ""; ""6. Service of Goods: Nature and Desire in Modern Science""; ""6.1 Lacan�s Critique of Science in Seminar XVII""; ""6.2 Nietzsche�s Empiricist-Centered Positive Comments on Science""; ""6.3 Lacan�s Mathematics-Centered Positive Comments on Science""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""