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By Adrian Johnston

Slavoj Žižek is without doubt one of the finest and critical philosophers operating at the present time, recognized mainly for his theoretical explorations of pop culture and modern politics. This booklet makes a speciality of the widely missed and infrequently overshadowed philosophical center of Žižek’s work—an crucial part in any precise appreciation of this certain thinker’s accomplishment.

His vital challenge, Žižek has proclaimed, is to exploit psychoanalysis (especially the lessons of Jacques Lacan) to redeploy the insights of late-modern German philosophy, particularly, the idea of Kant, Schelling, and Hegel. by means of taking this avowal heavily, Adrian Johnston ultimately clarifies the philosophical undertaking underlying Žižek’s efforts. His publication charts the interlinked ontology and concept of subjectivity developed via Žižek on the intersection of German idealism and Lacanian theory. Johnston additionally makes use of Žižek’s blend of philosophy and psychoanalysis to deal with perennial philosophical difficulties: the connection of brain and physique, and the character of human freedom. by way of bringing jointly the prior centuries of ecu philosophy, psychoanalytic metapsychology, and state of the art paintings within the ordinary sciences, Johnston develops a transcendental materialist concept of subjectivity—in brief, an account of the way more-than-material different types of subjectivity can emerge from a corporeal being. His paintings exhibits how an engagement with Žižek’s philosophy can produce compelling solutions to today’s such a lot vexing and pressing questions as inherited from the historical past of ideas.

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