Ontological Catastrophe: Žižek and the Paradoxical Metaphysics of German Idealism

Joseph Carew

• Editorial: Studium Publishing
• Año: 2018
• ISBN:
  9788027232192
• Categoría: Filosofía
• Categoría: Metafísica filosófica

This book is an original investigation into Slavoj Žižek's return to German Idealism in the wake of Lacanian psychoanalysis. As is well known, Žižek creates productive friction between these traditions by isolating their mutually compatible notions of the death drive, paving the way for Žižek's highly original model of the subject. Joseph Carew systematizes the stark metaphysical consequences of Žižek's account. If the emergence of the Symbolic out of the Real marks the advent of a completely self-enclosed structural system, then we must posit the absolute as a fragile not-all wrought by negativity and antagonism.

Índice

• Cover
• Ontological Catastrophe: Žižek and the Paradoxical Metaphysics of German Idealism
• Disclaimer
• Table of Contents
• Dedication
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• I Death Drive
• 1. The Madness of the Symbolic
• 2. Grasping the Vanishing Mediator Between the Real and the Ideal
• 3. Psychoanalysis and the Enigma of Transcendental Subjectivity
• 4. The Problem of Nature in the Lacanian Subject
• II Nature Torn Apart
• 5. Kant, Todestrieb, and Beyond the Pleasure Principle
• 6. From Transcendental Philosophy to Substance as Subject
• 7. The Logic of Transcendental Materialism
• 8. When the World Opens its Eyes
• 9. The Abyss of Unconscious Decision
• 10. Radicalizing the Subject
• III Overcoming Idealism
• 11. From Radical Idealism to Critical Metaphysics
• 12. The Deadlocks of Ontological Catastrophe
• Bibliography