Ontological Catastrophe: Žižek and the Paradoxical Metaphysics of German Idealism
In Ontological Catastrophe, Joseph Carew takes up the central question guiding Slavoj Žižek 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 a...
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| description | In Ontological Catastrophe, Joseph Carew takes up the central question guiding Slavoj Žižek 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. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-360572025-01-27T03:56:17Z Ontological Catastrophe: Žižek and the Paradoxical Metaphysics of German Idealism Carew, Joseph subjectivity realism phenomenal reality slavoj žižek german idealism Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Immanuel Kant Jacques Lacan Metaphysics Ontology Psychoanalysis thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy In Ontological Catastrophe, Joseph Carew takes up the central question guiding Slavoj Žižek 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. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2014-12-31 23:55:55 2019-11-28 16:10:36 2020-04-01T14:39:38Z 2014 book 507291 OCN: 1157350989 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33307 9781607853084 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/36057 eng New Metaphysics open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33307/1/507291.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33307/1/507291.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33307/1/507291.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33307/1/507291.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33307/1/507291.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33307/1/507291.pdf Open Humanities Press 10.3998/ohp.12763629.0001.001 10.3998/ohp.12763629.0001.001 d3c5bd18-f778-4237-a73b-dd99e8cf7c24 9781607853084 324 open access |
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