Objective Fictions
Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Marxism
1st Edition
Published on 31. January 2022
272 pages
978-1-4744-8934-8 (ISBN)
Description
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 contrib
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Adrian Johnston | Bostjan Nedoh | Alenka Zupancic
Objective Fictions
Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Marxism
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12/2021
Edinburgh University Press
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Content
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- 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
