In politics as well as in thinking, a true idea creates a cut. The aim of this series is to promote the hard work of theoretical delineation that is most needed today, when historicist relativism, naive scientism, and dogmatic fundamentalism risk supplementing each other at the expense of clarity and a sense of orientation. Such hard work does not take place in a vacuum: The point of reference that sustains it is the unique, triangulated encounter between German idealism, Marxian politics, and Lacanian psychoanalysis. From this dialectical horizon, the books in this series engage not only with philosophy but also with interventions in ideology, politics, and aesthetics.
Series editors: Slavoj Žižek, Adrian Johnston, and Todd McGowan
Contributions by Alejandro Cerda-Rueda, Mladen Dolar, Samo Tomšic, Andrea Zevnik, Amanda Holmes, Richard Boothby, Patricia Gherovici, Silvio Carneiro, Vladimir Safatle and Alenka Zupancic
This collection brings together theorists and practitioners of psychoanalysis from around the world to interrogate Lacan's notion of extimité (extimacy).
This book shows how the different forms of sensory, discursive, and theoretical mediation that characterize human cognition are conducive to a realist epistemological framework that explains how the possibility of knowledge about a mind‑independent reality is conceivable.
Renowned psychoanalytic philosopher Richard Boothby puts forward a novel theory of religion inspired by Jacques Lacan’s theory of das Ding. The book offers the theoretical tools for interpreting religious belief and analyzes several faith traditions.
This book integrates Hegel’s The Phenomenology of Spirit and contemporary conversations about energy. By interpreting actuality as energy in the Hegelian corpus, the author provides a new lens for understanding the dialectical project and the energy‑starved condition of our contemporaneity.
Algorithmic Desire shows that social media is a metaphor that reveals the dominant form of contemporary ideology: neoliberal capitalism. The author interprets the social media metaphor through dialectical, Marxist, and Lacanian frameworks.
Recognizing how certain theoretical and institutional problems in Lacanian psychoanalysis are grounded in the historical conditions of Lacan’s own thinking can help us overcome these impasses; Gabriel Tupinambá also analyzes the socioeconomic practices that underlie the current institutional existence of the Lacanian community.
Contributions by Adrian Johnston, Kathryn Van Wert, Nathan Gorelick, Molly Anne Rothenberg, Andrew Cole, Borna Radnik, Todd McGowan, Alenka Zupancic and Mladen Dolar
This collection of eleven philosophical essays addresses current trends in materialist philosophy dealing with subject-object relations, amounting to a polemical corrective that insists on the organizing role of the subject within materialist thought.
Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism, Volume Two: A Weak Nature Alone is the second part of a trilogy on subjectivity in the natural world. Johnston weaves together major works in Western philosophy in a visionary theory that is materialist yet antireductive.
Speculation: Politics, Ideology, Event develops Hegel’s radical perspective of speculative thought as a way of reclaiming and revitalizing the sense of the future and its possibilities.
