Objective fictions : philosophy, psychoanalysis, Marxism /
When it comes to the question of objectivity in current philosophical debates, there is a growing prominence of two opposite approaches: nominalism and realism. By absolutizing intersubjectivity, the nominalist approach is moving towards the abandonment of the very notion of truth and objective real...
| Other Authors: | , , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2022].
|
| Subjects: |
Table of 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.