Ontological Catastrophe New Metaphysics

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Ontological Catastrophe: New Metaphysics presents a case for renewed speculative metaphysics against disciplinary caution. The work traces themes across psychoanalysis and transcendental subjectivity, Lacanian accounts of the Real and Ideal, Kant and Todestrieb, and the shift toward critical metaphysics. It develops a logic of transmaterialism and examines the deadlocks of ontological catastrophe through a series of structured chapters culminating in radicalizing the subject.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryResearch & Report

FormatPDF

Pages327

Reading Time13 h 44 min

Ontological Catastrophe New Metaphysics Series Editors: Graham Harman and Bruno Latour The world is due for a resurgence of original speculative metaphysics. The New Metaphysics series aims to provide a safe house for such thinking amidst the demoralizing caution and prudence of professional academic philosophy. We do not aim to bridge the analyticcontinental divide, since we are equally impatient with nail-filing analytic critique and the continental reverence for dusty textual monuments. We favor instead the spirit of the intellectual gambler, and wish to discover and promote authors who meet this description. Like an emergent recording company, what we seek are traces of a new metaphysical ‘sound’from any nation of the world. The editors are open to translations of neglected metaphysical classics, and will consider secondary works of especial force and daring. But our main interest is to stimulate the birth of disturbing masterpieces of twenty-first century philosophy. Joseph Carew Ontological Catastrophe OPEN HUMANITIES PRESS An imprint of MPublishing – University of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor, 2014 First edition published by Open Humanities Press 2014 Freely available online at [http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/ohp.12763629.0001.001](http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/ohp.12763629.0001.001) Copyright © 2014 Joseph Carew This is an open access book, licensed under a 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/3.0](creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) Design by Katherine Gillieson Cover Illustration by Tammy Lu The cover illustration is copyright Tammy Lu 2014, used under a Creative Commons By Attribution license (CC-BY) . ISBN-13 978-1-60785-308-4 Open Humanities press is an international, scholar-led open access publishing collective whose mission is to make leading works of contemporary critical thought freely available worldwide. Books published under the Open Humanities press imprint at MPublishing are produced through a unique partnership between OHP’s editorial board and the University of Michigan Library, which provides a library-based managing and production support infrastructure to facilitate scholars to publish leading research in book form. OPEN HUMANITIES PRESS [www.publishing.umich.edu](www.publishing.umich.edu) [www.openhumanitiespress.org](www.openhumanitiespress.org) Contents Acknowledgements 9 Introduction 11 1. The Madness of the Symbolic 19 2. Grasping the Vanishing Mediator Between the Real and the Ideal 37 3. Psychoanalysis and the Enigma of Transcend

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