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Author Johnston, Adrian, 1974-

Title Prolegomena to any future materialism. Volume one, The outcome of contemporary French philosophy / Adrian Johnston
Published Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, [2013]
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Description xviii, 257 pages ; 23 cm
Series Diaeresis
Diaeresis.
Contents Introduction; "One surely will be found one day to make an ontology with what I am telling you": the road to a post-Lacanian materialism -- Part One. Jacques Lacan: between the sacred and the secular -- 1. Conflicted matter: the challenge of secularizing materialism -- 2. Turning the sciences inside out: revisiting "Science and truth" -- 3. On deep history and psychoanalysis: phylogenetic time in Lacanian theory -- Part Two. Alain Badiou: between form and matter -- 4. What matter(s) in ontology: the Hebb-event and materialism split from within -- 5. Phantom of consistency: Kant troubles -- Part Three. Quentin Meillassoux: between faith and knowledge -- 6. The world before worlds: the ancestral and Badiou's anti-Kantian transcendentalism -- 7. Hume's revenge: a Dieu, Meillassoux? -- Postface: from critique to construction: toward a transcendental materialism
Notes "The present book is the first volume of a trilogy entitled Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism, to be followed by A Weak Nature Alone and Substance Also as Subject."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.
Badiou, Alain.
Meillassoux, Quentin, 1967-
Materialism.
Philosophy, French -- 20th century.
LC no. 2012049692
ISBN 9780810129122 paperback alkaline paper
0810129124 paperback alkaline paper
Other Titles Outcome of contemporary French philosophy