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PUBLISHER: Edinburgh University Press

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9780748673285

RRP: £80.00

PAGES: 370

PUBLICATION DATE:
March 31, 2014

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Adventures in Transcendental Materialism: Dialogues with Contemporary Thinkers

Professor of Philosophy Adrian Johnston

This text provides a new materialist theory of subjectivity mobilising philosophy, psychoanalysis, politics and science.

Professor of Philosophy Adrian Johnston

Adrian Johnston is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico and a faculty member at the Emory Psychoanalytic Institute. He is the author of Time Driven (2005), Zizek’s Ontology (2008), Badiou, Zizek, and Political Transformations (2009), and Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism, Volume One (2013), all published by Northwestern University Press. He is the co-author, with Catherine Malabou, of Self and Emotional Life (Columbia University Press, 2013).

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