Objective Fictions
Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Marxism
Published on 15. November 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-1-4744-8933-1 (ISBN)
Description
This collection rethinks the relationship between objectivity and fiction through a series of 'objective fictions', such as fetishes, semblances, lies, rumours, sophistry, fantasies and conspiracy theories. It engages with modern and contemporary philosophical traditions and psychoanalytic theory, with all of these orientations being irreducible to either nominalist or realist approaches. The contributors are a mix of renowned thinkers and thinkers from the new generation, including Slavoj Zizek, Mladen Dolar, Frank Ruda and Samo Tomsic.
Reviews / Votes
I strongly recommend Objective Fictions. Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Marxism not only to advanced students of the humanities, but also to those who appreciate complex critiques, unexpectedly rewarding detours and argumentations which entail a cognitive mapping. -- von Dennis * unique * I strongly recommend Objective Fictions. Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Marxism not only to advanced students of the humanities, but also to those who appreciate complex critiques, unexpectedly rewarding detours and argumentations which entail a cognitive mapping. -- von Dennis * unique * An impressive and even exciting collection by a formidable group of scholars, and very topical as well. With essays on conspiracy theories, money, capital, rumors, and the very notion of objectivity...all of the essays show how the intersection of psychoanalysis and Marxism leads to rich and surprising insights. * Ed Pluth, California State University *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
436 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-8933-1 (9781474489331)
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Persons
Adrian Johnston is Distinguished Professor and Chair at the Department of Philosophy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA. 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, of Self and Emotional Life (Columbia University Press, 2013). Bostjan Nedoh is a Research Fellow at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute of Philosophy, Ljubljana, Slovenia. He has published extensively on Lacanian psychoanalysis, Italian biopolitical theory and contemporary French philosophy. Alenka Zupancic is a Research Advisor at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute of Philosophy, Ljubljana, Slovenia, and Professor at the European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland.
Editor
Distinguished Professor of PhilosophyUniversity of New Mexico at Albuquerque
Research FellowResearch Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute of Philosophy, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Research Advisor at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and ArtsInstitute of Philosophy, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Content
AcknowledgmentsAdrian Johnston, Bostjan Nedoh and Alenka Zupancic: Introduction. Beyond the Nominalism-Realism Divide: Objective Fictions from Bentham Through Marx to LacanChapter 1. Slavoj Zizek: Marx's Theory of FictionsChapter 2. Bostjan Nedoh: Is Surplus Value Structured Like an Anamorphosis? Marx, Lacan, and the Structure of Objective FictionChapter 3. Adrian Johnston: Shades of Green: Lacan and Capitalism's VeilsChapter 4. Samo Tomsic: From the Orderly World to the Polluted UnworldChapter 5. Cara S. Greene: The Genesis of a False Dichotomy: A Critique of Conceptual AlienationChapter 6. Ales Bunta: Nietzsche's Critique of Objectivity and It's 'Tools'Chapter 7. Peter Klepec: Tips and Tricks: Remarks on the Debate Between Badiou and Cassin on 'Sophistics'Chapter 8. Mladen Dolar: On Rumors, Gossip and Related MattersChapter 9. Paul M. Livingston: 'There is no such thing as the subject that thinks': Wittgenstein and Lacan on truth and the subjectChapter 10. Amanda Holmes: The Awful Truth: Games and their Relation to the UnconsciousChapter 11. Tadej Troha: The Objective Construction: Freud and the Primal SceneChapter 12. Frank Ruda: (From the Lie in the Closed World to) Lying in An Infinite UniverseChapter 13. Alenka Zupancic: A Short Essay on Conspiracy Theories