Ontological catastrophe: žižek and the paradoxical metaphysics of German idealism

dc.contributor.authorCarew, Joseph
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-20T15:46:24Z
dc.date.available2018-03-20T15:46:24Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractIn 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.en
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dc.identifier.citationCarew, J. (2014). Ontological Catastrophe: Žižek and the Paradoxical Metaphysics of German Idealism. Ann Arbor: Open Humanities Press. doi: 10.3998/ohp.12763629.0001.001en
dc.identifier.doi10.3998/ohp.12763629.0001.001
dc.identifier.endpage322
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-60785-308-4
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/5650
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherOpen Humanities Pressen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNew Metaphysics
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dc.rights© 2014, Joseph Carew. This is an open access book, licensed under Creative Commons By Attribution Share Alike license. Under this license, authors allow anyone to download, reuse, reprint, modify, distribute, and/or copy this book so long as the authors and source are cited and resulting derivative works are licensed under the same or similar license. No permission is required from the authors or the publisher. Statutory fair use and other rights are in no way affected by the above. Read more about the license at creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0en
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dc.subjectSlavoj Žižeken
dc.subjectPhenomenal realityen
dc.subjectGerman idealismen
dc.subjectSubjectivityen
dc.subjectRealismen
dc.titleOntological catastrophe: žižek and the paradoxical metaphysics of German idealismen
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