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Ontological Catastrophe: Žižek and the Paradoxical Metaphysics of German Idealism
Series: New Metaphysics
Open Humanities Press
An imprint of Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, ©2014
Contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: A Metaphysical Archaeology of the Psychoanalytico-Cartesian Subject
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I. Death Drive
- 1. The Madness of the Symbolic: Transcendental Materialism and the Ambiguity of the Real
- 2. Grasping the Vanishing Mediator Between the Real and the Ideal: Žižek and the Unconscious Truth of German Idealism
- 3. Psychoanalysis and the Enigma of Transcendental Subjectivity: Towards a New Materialism
- 4. The Problem of Nature in the Lacanian Subject: The Obscure Origins of the Symbolic
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II. Nature Torn Apart
- 5. Kant, Todestrieb, and Beyond the Pleasure Principle: The Unruly Basis of Transcendental Freedom
- 6. From Transcendental Philosophy to Substance as Subject: Hegel and the Psychotic Night of the World
- 7. The Logic of Transcendental Materialism: Schelling and the Spectral Other Side of German Idealism
- 8. When the World Opens its Eyes: The Traumatic Fissure of Ontological Catastrophe
- 9. The Abyss of Unconscious Decision: Schelling's Weltalter and Psychoanalytical Horror of Substance as Subject
- 10. Radicalizing the Subject: Substance Gasping for Breath, the Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics, and the Žižekian Unconscious
- III. Overcoming Idealism
- Bibliography
