By Adrian Johnston
ISBN-10: 0810124556
ISBN-13: 9780810124554
Slavoj Žižek is among the best and significant philosophers operating this day, recognized mainly for his theoretical explorations of pop culture and modern politics. This e-book makes a speciality of the widely ignored and infrequently overshadowed philosophical middle of Žižek’s work—an crucial part in any real appreciation of this exact thinker’s accomplishment.
His principal quandary, Žižek has proclaimed, is to exploit psychoanalysis (especially the lessons of Jacques Lacan) to redeploy the insights of late-modern German philosophy, particularly, the idea of Kant, Schelling, and Hegel. by way of taking this avowal heavily, Adrian Johnston eventually clarifies the philosophical undertaking underlying Žižek’s efforts. His booklet charts the interlinked ontology and conception of subjectivity built by means of Žižek on the intersection of German idealism and Lacanian thought. Johnston additionally makes use of Žižek’s blend of philosophy and psychoanalysis to deal with perennial philosophical difficulties: the connection of brain and physique, and the character of human freedom. by means of bringing jointly the prior centuries of eu philosophy, psychoanalytic metapsychology, and state of the art paintings within the ordinary sciences, Johnston develops a transcendental materialist concept of subjectivity—in brief, an account of the way more-than-material varieties of subjectivity can emerge from a corporeal being. His paintings exhibits how an engagement with Žižek’s philosophy can produce compelling solutions to today’s such a lot vexing and pressing questions as inherited from the background of ideas.
“It is usually tough to learn books approximately oneself; with Johnston’s e-book, my anxiousness was once even greater than ordinary. whereas studying it, I frequently had the uncanny feeling of being faced via a line of argumentation which inserts larger than my very own texts what i'm suffering to formulate—as if he's the unique and i'm a duplicate. He definitely is familiar with the right way to learn me. the vast majority of my critics be aware of pop culture, politics, and beliefs in my work—Johnston is going on to its transcendental-ontological nucleus. this isn't a ebook on me, yet a publication, serious of me, on what either Johnston and that i examine the center of our philosophical crisis. I therefore recommend the reader to ignore me and to benefit from the labor of penetrating the vague measurement of the philosophical foundations of psychoanalysis.” —Slavoj Žižek
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The nothingness fled from, the void that Kant allegedly labors so hard to avoid, is nothing other than the very absence of the subject itself, the negation of the insurmountable "transcendental illusion" of its apparent immortality. 4 Avoiding the Void: The Temporal Loop of the Fundamental Fantasy According to Zizek's heterodox juxtaposition of Kant and Lacan, the psychoanalytic notion of fantasy has direct relevance to this splitting of subjectivity between, o n the o n e hand, the noumenal subject of (uncon scious) enunciation and, on the other hand, the phenomenal subject of utterances (as determinate signifier-predicates).
A substantial "piece of real ity")—and it is this very desubstantialization which opens up the empty space (the "blank surface") onto whichfantasies are projected, where monsters emerge. To put it in Kantian terms: because of the inaccessibility of the Thing in itself, there is always a gaping hole in (constituted, phenomenal) reality, reality is never "all," its circle is never closed, and this void of the inacces sible Thing is filled out with phantasmagorias through which the transphenomenal Thing enters the stage of phenomenal presence—in short, prior to the Kantian turn, there can be no black hulk at the background of the stage.
Kantian transcendental-epistemological finitude amounts to the 15 IN IDEALISM MORE THAN IDEALISM ITSELF philosophical acceptance that knowledge is condemned to be (in Lacanian parlance) "not all," to be lacking and less than total (or as Lacan would put it, the big Other of the symbolic order is always barred). ) From this, Zizek slides to the assertion that, apropos Kantian subjectivity, "what looks like an epistemological limitation of our capacity to grasp reality (die fact that we are forever perceiving reality from our finite temporal standpoint) is the positive ontological condition of reality itself' (Zizek 1999b, 158).
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