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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910792275903321
• Autore: Themi Tim <1975->
• 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
• 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 Lacanâ€?s Tripartite Schema with Nietzscheâ€?s Critique of Platoâ€?s Good""; ""1.2 Lacanâ€?s Freudian Thing in the Critique of Aristotleâ€?s Good""; ""2. Distinguishing Weak Sublimation From the Strong""; ""2.1 The Promise of Sublimation and Its Discontents""; ""2.2 Lacanâ€?s Treatment of Sublimation""; ""2.3 Nietzscheâ€?s Distinction between Weak and Strong""; ""3. Before the Good: Strong Ethics in Sophoclesâ€? 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: Nietzscheâ€?s Strong Dionysian Catharsis""; ""4. Birth of the Good: Weak Ethics In Socratesâ€? Alcibiades""; ""4.1 Lacanâ€?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 Lacanâ€?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 Lacanâ€?s Critique of Science in Seminar XVII""; ""6.2 Nietzscheâ€?s Empiricist-Centered Positive Comments on Science""; ""6.3 Lacanâ€?s Mathematics-Centered Positive Comments on Science""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""