Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism: A Weak Nature Alone

Author:   Adrian Johnston
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Pages:   396
Publication Date:   30 September 2019
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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. 

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Author:   Adrian Johnston
Publisher:   Northwestern University Press
Imprint:   Northwestern University Press
Weight:   0.633kg
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9780810140639


ISBN 10:   0810140632
Pages:   396
Publication Date:   30 September 2019
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Preface. Repeating Engels: Renewing the Cause of the Materialist Wager for the Twenty-First Century Introduction: Tales of the Endangered Dead: Historical Essays in an Underground Current of Naturalism Part I. The Voiding of Weak Nature: The Transcendental Materialist Kernels of Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature Chapter 1. Revivifying Hegel: Breathing New Life into Naturphilosophie 2. From Bern to Jena: The Oldest Agenda of Hegelianism 3. The Self-Subversion of Modern Science: Scientific Reason and the Phenomenology of Spirit 4. Real Genesis: From the Natural to the Logical, and Back Again 5. The Dialectics of Impotent Nature: Substance and Subject in the System of the Mature Hegel Part II. From Scientific Socialism to Socialist Science: The Dialectics of Nature Then and Now 6. The Specter of Engels: The Obscured History of Marxism’s Philosophies of Science 7. This is orthodox Marxism: The Shared Materialist Weltanschauung of Marx and Engels 8. The Three Fathers of Naturdialektitk: Engels, Dietzgen, Lenin 9. Breaking and Bridging: Althusserian Syntheses of Historical and Dialectical Materialisms 10. Western Marxism’s Self-Critique: Lukács’s Final Ontological Verdict Part III. Negativity Mystical and Material: Privative Causality from Pico Della Mirandola to Lacan 11. The Privation of Science: Lacking Causes 12. There is absence, and then there are absences: Back to Kant, Forward to Lacan, and Onward 13. The Night of the Living World: The Missing Link of the Anorganic 14. Split Brain, Split Subject: Critically Approaching a Possible Lacanian Neuro-Psychoanalysis 15. The Myth of the Non-Given: The Positive Genesis of the Negative Part IV. Second Natures in Dappled Worlds: Neo-Hegelianism and Philosophy of Science in the Analytic Tradition 16. Lacan avec McDowell: The Unresolved Problem of Naturalism 17. From the Subjectivity of Transcendental Idealism to the Objectivity of Absolute Idealism: Returning to Kant and Hegel 18. Between Bald Naturalism and Rampant Platonism: Relaxing Into McDowell’s Third Way 19. More is      less: Psychoanalysis, Science, and the Decompletion of First Nature 20. Piebald Naturalism: Freedom in   Cartwright’s Image of Nature Postface. Points of Forced Freedom: Eleven (More) Theses on Materialism Notes Bibliography Index

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Adrian Johnston is one of the most innovative and audacious continental philosophers writing today. Over the past decade, he has developed an original theoretical synthesis of remarkable sophistication. This volume is a significant addition to his already impressive body of work. --Ray Brassier, author of Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction?


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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, Žižek’s Ontology: A Transcendental Materialist Theory of Subjectivity, Badiou, Žižek, 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.

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