Adrian Johnston: Žižek's Ontology and Transcendental Materialism
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Prof. Adrian Johnston is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque and a faculty member at the Emory Psychoanalytic Institute in Atlanta. He is the author of numerous books, including Zizek's Ontology, A New German Idealism, the Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism trilogy and Infinite Greed. Prof. Johnston is in continuous dialogue with his fellow travellers Slavoj Žižek, Alenka Zupančič, Catherine Malabou, Todd McGowan and others in contemporary Hegelian-Lacanian theory while also bringing into the discourse the developments within analytic philosophy and the natural sciences. In this episode, we discuss ontological incompleteness, transcendental materialism, Hegel, Schelling, the Freudo-Lacanian death drive and their broader metapsychology, Žižek's engagement with quantum mechanics, Catherine Malabou's theorising on neuroplasticity vis-à-vis Hegelianism, object-oriented ontology, the violence of the subject, alienation, doughnut vs layer cake ontology, cognitivism, David Chalmers and panpsychism, philosophising on neuroscience and bridging the gap between analytic and continental philosophy.
You can find more of Prof. Adrian Johnston's work at https://philosophy.unm.edu/people/faculty/profile/adrian-johnston.html
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RSam Podcast #46
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