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Book SynopsisResponding to the ongoing objectal turn throughout contemporary humanities and social sciences, the eleven essays in Subject Lessons present a sustained case for the continued importance - indeed, the indispensability - of the category of the subject for the future of materialist thought.
Trade ReviewThink of it as 'object ontology' meets '
objet a ontology.' In this volume of superb essays, the 'new materialism' associated with figures like Harman, Meillassoux, Bennett, and Bryant finds a Lacanian rejoinder well spoken for by Hegel's famous line: 'Not only as substance but also as subject!' An invaluable exchange between two major currents of contemporary theory." —Richard Boothby, author of
Freud as Philosopher: Metapsychology after Lacan"A band of new materialists has come after the subject, knives drawn. In what ways do these thinkers differ from materialists past? From each other? What do they mean when they speak of materialism, of objects, or subjects? By confronting these basic questions directly, the essays in this collection cut through the babble of confused debate to offer clear accounts of the issues at stake." —Joan Copjec, author of
Imagine There's No WomanTable of Contents
- Introduction: Hegel, Lacan, and the Future of Materialism - Russell Sbriglia and Slavoj Žižek
- Part I. Hegel and Philosophical Materialism
- 1. What 's the Matter? On Matter and Related Matters - Mladen Dolar
- 2. Subjectivity in Times of (New) Materialisms: Hegel and Conceptualization - Borna Radnik
- 3. Objects after Subjects: Hegel 's Broken Ontology - Todd McGowan
- 4. Elements of Dialectical Materialism in Hegel and Marx - Andrew Cole
- 5. Intellectual Intuition and Intellectus Archetypus: Reflexivity from Kant to Hegel - Slavoj Žižek
- Part II. Lacan and Psychoanalytic Materialism
- 6. Fear of Science: Transcendental Materialism and Its Discontents - Adrian Johnston
- 7. Ontology and the Death Drive: Lacan and Deleuze - Alenka Zupancic
- 8. Why Sex is Special: Psychoanalysis against New Materialism - Nathan Gorelick
- 9. Twisting "Flat Ontology": Harman 's "Allure" and Lacan 's Extimate Cause - Molly Anne Rothenberg
- 10. Becoming and the Challenge of Ontological Incompleteness: Virginia Woolf avec Lacan contra Deleuze - Kathryn Van Wert
- 11. From Sublimity to Sublimation: Hegel, Lacan, Melville - Russell Sbriglia
- Notes
- Contributors
