Adventures in Transcendental Materialism: Dialogues with Contemporary Thinkers - Brossura

Johnston, Adrian

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ISBN 10: 0748673296 ISBN 13: 9780748673292

Casa editrice: Edinburgh Univ Pr, 2014

Riassunto

Since Bacon, Gallileo and Descartes in the early 17th century, the relations between science and religion as well as mind and body have remained volatile fault lines of conflict. The controversies surrounding these relations are as alive and pressing now as at any point over the course of the past four centuries.

Adrian Johnston's transcendental materialism offers a new theoretical approach to these issues. Arming himself with resources provided by German idealism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, the life sciences and contemporary philosophical developments, Johnston formulates an account of subjectivity that, although being both materialist and naturalist, does full justice to human beings as irreducible to natural matter alone. At the same time he argues against relapses into idealisms, dualisms and spiritualisms.

Adventures in Transcendental Materialism elaborates Johnston's position through critical engagements with some of today's most important thinkers including Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, Catherine Malabou, Jean-Claude Milner, Martin Hägglund, William Connolly, and Jane Bennett.

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L'autore:

Adrian Johnston is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico and a faculty member at the Emory Psychoanalytic Institute.

He is the author of Time Driven (2005), Zizek's Ontology (2008),Badiou, Zizek, and Political Transformations (2009), and Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism, Volume One(2013), all published by Northwestern University Press. He is the co-author, with Catherine Malabou, ofSelf and Emotional Life (Columbia University Press, 2013).

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Edinburgh Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0748673296
• ISBN 13: 9780748673292
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 358