Ontological Catastrophe: ¿i¿ek and the Paradoxical Metaphysics of German Idealism

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This book is an original investigation into Slavoj ´i¸ek's return to German Idealism in the wake of Lacanian psychoanalysis. As is well known, ´i¸ek creates productive friction between these traditions by isolating their mutually compatible notions of the death drive, paving the way for ´i¸ek's highly original model of the subject. Joseph Carew systematizes the stark metaphysical consequences of ´i¸ek's account. If the emergence of the Symbolic out of the Real marks the advent of a completely self-enclosed structural system, then we must posit the absolute as a fragile not-all wrought by negativity and antagonism.

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