Adventures in Transcendental Materialism (Speculative by Adrian Johnston PDF

By Adrian Johnston

when you consider that Bacon, Gallileo and Descartes within the early seventeenth century, the kin among technology and faith in addition to brain and physique have remained unstable fault traces of clash. The controversies surrounding those relatives are as alive and urgent now as at any aspect over the process the earlier 4 centuries.

Adrian Johnston's transcendental materialism deals a brand new theoretical method of those concerns. Arming himself with assets supplied by means of German idealism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, the existence sciences and modern philosophical advancements, Johnston formulates an account of subjectivity that, even if being either materialist and naturalist, does complete justice to people as irreducible to ordinary topic on my own. even as he argues opposed to relapses into idealisms, dualisms and spiritualisms.

Adventures in Transcendental Materialism elaborates Johnston's place via serious engagements with a few of latest most vital thinkers together with Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, Catherine Malabou, Jean-Claude Milner, Martin Hägglund, William Connolly, and Jane Bennett.

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