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...

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Other Authors: Johnston, Adrian, 1974- (Editor), Nedoh, Boštjan (Editor), Zupančič, Alenka (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022].
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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.