| Description |
1 online resource (x, 261 pages) |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction: Beyond the nominalism-realism divide: objective fictions from Bentham through Marx to Lacan / Adrian Johnston, Boštjan Nedoh and Alenka Zupančič -- Marx's theory of fictions / Slavoj Žižek -- Is surplus value structured like an anamorphosis? Marx, Lacan and the structure of objective fiction / Boštjan Nedoh -- Shades of green: Lacan and capitalism's veils / Adrian Johnston -- From the orderly world to the polluted unworld / Samo Tomšič -- The genesis of a false dichotomy: a critique of conceptual alienation / Cara S. Greene -- Nietzsche's critique of objectivity and its 'tools' / Aleš Bunta -- Tips and tricks: remarks on the debate between Badiou and Cassin on 'Sophistics' / Peter Klepec -- On rumours, gossip and related matters / Mladen Dolar -- 'There is no such thing as the subject that thinks': Wittgenstein and Lacan on truth and the subject / Paul M. Livingston -- The awful truth: games and their relation to the unconscious / Amanda Holmes -- The objective construction: Freud and the primal scene / Tadej Troha -- (From the lie in the closed world to) Lying in an infinite universe / Frank Ruda -- A short essay on conspiracy theories / Alenka Zupančič |
| Summary |
"Relying on contemporary continental philosophy, psychoanalytic theory and the Marxist tradition, this volume moves beyond the deadlock between nominalism and realism. It rethinks the relationship between objectivity and fiction through engaging with a series of 'objective fictions', including fetishes, semblances, lies, rumours, sophistry, fantasies, and conspiracy theories, among other phenomena. What all these phenomena exhibit are paradoxical entanglements of subjectivity with objectivity and of fiction with truth."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Adrian Johnston is Distinguished Professor and Chair at the Department of Philosophy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA. Boštjan Nedoh is a Research Fellow at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute of Philosophy, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Alenka Zupančič 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 |
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Objectivity.
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Fictions, Theory of.
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Philosophy, Marxist.
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Psychoanalysis.
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psychoanalysis.
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PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics.
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Fictions, Theory of
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Objectivity
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Philosophy, Marxist
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Psychoanalysis
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Johnston, Adrian, 1974- editor.
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Nedoh, Boštjan, editor.
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Zupančič, Alenka, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781474489348 |
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1474489346 |
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9781474489355 |
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1474489354 |
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