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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.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Themi, Tim, 1975- author.
- Series:
- SUNY Series, Insinuations : Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature
- SUNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychoanalysis and philosophy.
- Psychoanalysis and culture.
- Platonists.
- Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.
- Lacan, Jacques.
- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.
- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (210 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, New York : SUNY Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Bringing together Jacques Lacan and Friedrich Nietzsche, Tim Themi focuses on their conceptions of ethics and on their accounts of the history of ethical thinking in the Western tradition. Nietzsche blames Plato for setting in motion a degenerative process that turned ethics away from nature, the body, and its senses, and thus eventually against our capacities for reason, science, and a creative, flourishing life. Dismissing Plato's Supreme Good as a "mirage," Lacan is very much in sympathy with Nietzsche's reading. Following this premise, Themi shows how Lacan's ethics might build on Nietzsche's work, thus contributing to our understanding of Nietzsche, and also how Nietzsche's critique can strengthen our understanding of Lacan.
- Contents:
- ""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""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781438450414
- 1438450419
- OCLC:
- 877985039
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