Ontological Catastrophe

Ontological Catastrophe
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Publisher : Open Humanitites Press
Total Pages : 322
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ISBN-10 : 1607853086
ISBN-13 : 9781607853084
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Book Synopsis Ontological Catastrophe by : Joseph Carew

Download or read book Ontological Catastrophe written by Joseph Carew and published by Open Humanitites Press. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.


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