Prolegomena to any future materialism / Adrian Johnston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnston, Adrian, 1974- author.

Series:

Diaeresis

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.

Lacan, Jacques.

Badiou, Alain.

Meillassoux, Quentin, 1967-.

Meillassoux, Quentin.

Materialism.

Philosophy, French--20th century.

Philosophy, French.

Physical Description:

volumes ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2013-

Summary:

Adrian Johnston's monumental Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism lays the foundation for a new theoretical apparatus, his "transcendental materialism." In this volume, the first of three, Johnston clears an opening within contemporary philosophy and theory for his unique position. He engages closely with Jacques Lacan, Alain Badiou, and Quentin Meillassoux, demonstrating how each of these thinkers can be seen as failing to forge an authentically atheistic materialism. Johnston builds a new materialism that is profoundly influenced by these brilliant comrades of a shared cause yet compensates for the shortcomings of their creative attempts to bring to realization the Lacanian vision of an Other-less, One-less ontology. The Outcome of Contemporary French Philosophy supplies intellectual weapons apt for deployment on multiple fronts simultaneously, effective against the mutually entangled spiritualist and scientistic foes of our post-Enlightenment, biopolitical era of commodities and currencies. Book jacket.

Contents:

v. 1. The outcome of contemporary French philosophy

v. 2. A weak nature alone

v. 3. Substance also as subject.

Notes:

Complete in three volumes.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780810129122

0810129124

9780810140622

0810140624

OCLC:

863636104