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Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism: A Weak Nature Alone

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Availability:In StockContributor:Adrian JohnstonSeries:Diaeresis #2Publish date:2019-09-15Pages:408
Language:EnglishPublisher:Northwestern University PressISBN-13:9780810140622ISBN-10:810140624UPC:9780810140622Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Movements, PoliticalBook Topic:Critical Theory, IdealismSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.2522Product ID:SCJCZA3BHR
Adrian Johnston's trilogy Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism aims to forge a thoroughly materialist yet antireductive theory of subjectivity. In this second volume, A Weak Nature Alone, Johnston focuses on the philosophy of nature required for such a theory. This volume is guided by a fundamental question: How must nature be rethought so that human minds and freedom do not appear to be either impossible or inexplicable within it? Asked differently: How must the natural world itself be structured such that sapient subjects in all their distinctive peculiarities emerged from and continue to exist within this world?

In A Weak Nature Alone, Johnston develops his transcendental materialist account of nature through engaging with and weaving together five main sources of inspiration: Hegelian philosophy, Marxist materialism, Freudian-Lacanian metapsychology, Anglo-American analytic neo-Hegelianism, and evolutionary theory and neurobiology. Johnston argues that these seemingly (but not really) strange bedfellows should be brought together so as to construct a contemporary ontology of nature. Through this ontology, nonnatural human subjects can be seen to arise in an immanent, bottom-up fashion from nature itself.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Northwestern University PressISBN-13:9780810140622ISBN-10:810140624UPC:9780810140622Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Movements, PoliticalBook Topic:Critical Theory, IdealismSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.2522Product ID:SCJCZA3BHR
ADRIAN JOHNSTON is a professor of philosophy at the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque and a faculty member at the Emory Psychoanalytic Institute in Atlanta. He is the author of seven books, including Time Driven: Metapsychology and the Splitting of the Drive, Zizek's Ontology: A Transcendental Materialist Theory of Subjectivity, Badiou, Zizek, and Political Transformations: The Cadence of Change, and Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism, Volume One: The Outcome of Contemporary French Philosophy, all published by Northwestern University Press.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press

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