Objective fictions : philosophy, psychoanalysis, Marxism / edited by Adrian Johnston, Bostjan Nedoh, Alenka Zupancic.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Johnston, Adrian, editor.

Nedoh, Boštjan, editor.

Zupančič, Alenka, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fictions, Theory of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 pages)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]

Summary:

This collection rethinks the relationship between objectivity and fiction beyond the realism-nominalism divide through a series of 'objective fictions', such as fetishes, semblances, lies, rumours, sophistry, fantasies and conspiracy theories. The contributors include Slavoj Žižek, Mladen Dolar, Frank Ruda and Samo Tomsi?.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Beyond the Nominalism-Realism Divide: Objective Fictions from Bentham through Marx to Lacan

1 Marx’s Theory of Fictions

2 Is Surplus Value Structured Like an Anamorphosis? Marx, Lacan and the Structure of Objective Fiction

3 Shades of Green: Lacan and Capitalism’s Veils

4 From the Orderly World to the Polluted Unworld

5 The Genesis of a False Dichotomy: A Critique of Conceptual Alienation

6 Nietzsche’s Critique of Objectivity and Its ‘Tools’

7 Tips and Tricks: Remarks on the Debate between Badiou and Cassin on ‘Sophistics’

8 On Rumours, Gossip and Related Matters

9 ‘There is no such thing as the subject that thinks’: Wittgenstein and Lacan on Truth and the Subject

10 The Awful Truth: Games and Their Relation to the Unconscious

11 The Objective Construction: Freud and the Primal Scene

12 (From the Lie in the Closed World to) Lying in an Infinite Universe

13 A Short Essay on Conspiracy Theories

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4744-8934-6

OCLC:

1298393938