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Johnston, Adrian. Objective Fictions [[electronic resource]]: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Marxism. — Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022. — 1 online resource (274 p.). — Description based upon print version of record. — <URL:http://elib.fa.ru/ebsco/3178643.pdf>.

Record create date: 2/19/2022

Subject: Objectivity.; Fictions, Theory of.; Philosophy, Marxist.; Psychoanalysis.

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This collection rethinks the relationship between objectivity and fiction beyond the realism-nominalism divide through a series of 'objective fictions', such as fetishes, semblances, lies, rumours, sophistry, fantasies and conspiracy theories. The contributors include Slavoj Žižek, Mladen Dolar, Frank Ruda and Samo Tomsič.

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Table of Contents

  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction: Beyond the Nominalism-Realism Divide: Objective Fictions from Bentham through Marx to Lacan
  • 1. Marx’s Theory of Fictions
  • 2. Is Surplus Value Structured Like an Anamorphosis? Marx, Lacan and the Structure of Objective Fiction
  • 3. Shades of Green: Lacan and Capitalism’s Veils
  • 4. From the Orderly World to the Polluted Unworld
  • 5. The Genesis of a False Dichotomy: A Critique of Conceptual Alienation
  • 6. Nietzsche’s Critique of Objectivity and Its ‘Tools’
  • 7. Tips and Tricks: Remarks on the Debate between Badiou and Cassin on ‘Sophistics’
  • 8. On Rumours, Gossip and Related Matters
  • 9. ‘There is no such thing as the subject that thinks’: Wittgenstein and Lacan on Truth and the Subject
  • 10. The Awful Truth: Games and Their Relation to the Unconscious
  • 11. The Objective Construction: Freud and the Primal Scene
  • 12. (From the Lie in the Closed World to) Lying in an Infinite Universe
  • 13. A Short Essay on Conspiracy Theories
  • Index

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