TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carew, Joseph
AB  - In Ontological Catastrophe, Joseph Carew takes up the central question guiding Slavoj Žižek philosophy: How could something like phenomenal reality emerge out of the meaninglessness of the Real? Carefully reconstructing and expanding upon his controversial reactualization of German Idealism, Carew argues that Žižek offers us an original, but perhaps terrifying, response: experience is possible only if we presuppose a prior moment of breakdown as the ontogenetic basis of subjectivity. Drawing upon resources found in Žižek, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and post-Kantian philosophy, Carew thus develops a new critical metaphysics—a metaphysics which is a variation upon the late German Idealist theme of balancing system and freedom, realism and idealism, in a single, self-reflexive theoretical construct—that challenges our understanding of nature, culture, and the ultimate structure of reality.
DO  - 10.3998/ohp.12763629.0001.001
ID  - OAPEN ID: 507291
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1157350989
ID  - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33307
KW  - subjectivity
KW  - realism
KW  - phenomenal reality
KW  - slavoj žižek
KW  - german idealism
KW  - Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
KW  - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
KW  - Immanuel Kant
KW  - Jacques Lacan
KW  - Metaphysics
KW  - Ontology
KW  - Psychoanalysis
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33307/1/507291.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33307/1/507291.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33307/1/507291.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33307/1/507291.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33307/1/507291.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/36057
PB  - Open Humanities Press
PY  - 2014
SN  - 9781607853084
TI  - Ontological Catastrophe: Žižek and the Paradoxical Metaphysics of German Idealismnull
ER  - 
