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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815235503321

Autore

Johnston Adrian <1974->

Titolo

Prolegomena to any future materialism . Volume one The outcome of contemporary French philosophy / / Adrian Johnston

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Evanston, Illinois : , : Northwestern University Press, , 2013

ISBN

0-8101-6662-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 257 pages)

Collana

Diaeresis

Disciplina

146.3

Soggetti

Materialism

Philosophy, French - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"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."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.