Ontological catastrophe

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"In Ontological Catastrophe, Joseph Carew takes up the central question guiding Slavoj Žižek's philosophy: How could something like phenomenal reality emerge out of the meaninglessness of the Real? Carefully reconstructing and expanding upon his controversial reactualization of German Idealism, Carew argues that Žižek offers us an original, but perhaps terrifying, response: experience is possible only if we presuppose a prior moment of breakdown as the ontogenetic basis of subjectivity. Drawing…

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Full title :Ontological catastrophe / Joseph Carew.

Summary

"In Ontological Catastrophe, Joseph Carew takes up the central question guiding Slavoj Žižek's philosophy: How could something like phenomenal reality emerge out of the meaninglessness of the Real? Carefully reconstructing and expanding upon his controversial reactualization of German Idealism, Carew argues that Žižek offers us an original, but perhaps terrifying, response: experience is possible only if we presuppose a prior moment of breakdown as the ontogenetic basis of subjectivity. Drawing upon resources found in Žižek, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and post-Kantian philosophy, Carew thus develops a new critical metaphysics--a metaphysics which is a variation upon the late German Idealist theme of balancing system and freedom, realism and idealism, in a single, self-reflexive theoretical construct--that challenges our understanding of nature, culture, and the ultimate structure of reality."--Publisher's description.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014.
Edition:First edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Open Humanities Press
Place of Publication:Ann Arbor, Michigan
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (322 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781607853084, 1607853086
oclc:ocn895275977
LC Classification:B4870.Z594
Dewey Decimal:[E]

Subjects

German idealism Idealism, German Idéalisme allemand Metaphysics Métaphysique phenomenal reality Philosophy Realism slavoj?i?ek Subjectivity Žižek, Slavoj