Ontology and Perversion
Deleuze, Agamben, Lacan
1st Edition
Published on 4. June 2019
214 pages
978-1-78660-552-8 (ISBN)
Description
This book examines the philosophical and political relevance of perversion in the works of three key representatives of contemporary philosophy and psychoanalysis: Gilles Deleuze, Giorgio Agamben and Jacques Lacan.
Perversion is often understood simply in terms of cultural or sexual phenomena. By contrast, Bostjan Nedoh places perversion at the heart of philosophical, ontological and political issues in the works of Deleuze, Agamben and Lacan. He examines the relevance of their discussions of perversion for their respective critical ontological projects. By tracing the differences between these thinkers' understanding of perversion, the book finally draws lines of delimitation between the vitalist and the structuralist or psychoanalytic philosophical positions in contemporary philosophy.
Perversion is often understood simply in terms of cultural or sexual phenomena. By contrast, Bostjan Nedoh places perversion at the heart of philosophical, ontological and political issues in the works of Deleuze, Agamben and Lacan. He examines the relevance of their discussions of perversion for their respective critical ontological projects. By tracing the differences between these thinkers' understanding of perversion, the book finally draws lines of delimitation between the vitalist and the structuralist or psychoanalytic philosophical positions in contemporary philosophy.
Reviews / Votes
Why is perversion not simply a social phenomenon but a mode of being? In this remarkable book, Nedoh audaciously stalks a novel ontology that dresses in variegated furs. Lacan's indifferently ferocious superego is juxtaposed to and played against the vitalist simulacra of Deleuze's Masoch and Agamben's Sphinx. Should critique drive with high heels? For an ontology to be truly fundamental and absolute, it must account for everything under the sun. Given this, the category of the perverse, with its peculiarities and strangenesses, represents perhaps the greatest challenge to any ontological ambitions. In Ontology and Perversion, Bostjan Nedoh admirably rises to this challenge. He does so through a wonderfully illuminating defense of Lacan's reflections on ontology in relation to the ontologies of Deleuze and Agamben. Nedoh's book makes perversion an unavoidable point of reference for contemporary Continental metaphysics.More details
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Language
English
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London
United Kingdom
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978-1-78660-552-8 (9781786605528)
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Bostjan Nedoh is a Research Fellow at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute of Philosophy, Ljubljana.
Content
Acknowledgments
Preface
Part I: Introductory: Perversion as a Theatre of Being
1 Perversions and Critical Ontologies: Ontologysing Perversion, Perverting Ontology in Deleuze, Agamben, and Lacan
Part II: Perversion between Deleuze's Transcendental Empiricism and the Ontology of Immanence Theatrum Philosophicum
2 Deleuze's Transcendental Empiricism: Simulacrum, Divergence and the Ontology of Difference
3 Masoch as a Name-of-Being
4 From Masoch to Tao: The Revision of Masochism in Late Deleuze
Part III: Beyond Metaphysics? Perversion in Agamben's Philosophy of Language and Political Philosophy Theatrum Politicum
5 Perverse Sphinx Against Oedipal Metaphysics: (Anti-)Metaphysics of Perversion in Agamben's Critique of Derrida and Freud
6 Messianism between Religion and Post-Religion: On the Perverse Structure of the Messianic Time
7 State of Exception and Sade's Biopolitical Manifesto
Part IV: Not Without the Other: Ontology and Perversion in Lacanian Psychoanalysis Theatrum Analiticum
8 Why Perversi
Preface
Part I: Introductory: Perversion as a Theatre of Being
1 Perversions and Critical Ontologies: Ontologysing Perversion, Perverting Ontology in Deleuze, Agamben, and Lacan
Part II: Perversion between Deleuze's Transcendental Empiricism and the Ontology of Immanence Theatrum Philosophicum
2 Deleuze's Transcendental Empiricism: Simulacrum, Divergence and the Ontology of Difference
3 Masoch as a Name-of-Being
4 From Masoch to Tao: The Revision of Masochism in Late Deleuze
Part III: Beyond Metaphysics? Perversion in Agamben's Philosophy of Language and Political Philosophy Theatrum Politicum
5 Perverse Sphinx Against Oedipal Metaphysics: (Anti-)Metaphysics of Perversion in Agamben's Critique of Derrida and Freud
6 Messianism between Religion and Post-Religion: On the Perverse Structure of the Messianic Time
7 State of Exception and Sade's Biopolitical Manifesto
Part IV: Not Without the Other: Ontology and Perversion in Lacanian Psychoanalysis Theatrum Analiticum
8 Why Perversi
