Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism : A Weak Nature Alone Paperback / softback
by Adrian Johnston
Part of the Diaeresis series
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Adrian Johnston’s trilogy Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism aims to forge a thoroughly materialist yet antireductive theory of subjectivity.
In this second volume, A Weak Nature Alone, Johnston focuses on the philosophy of nature required for such a theory.
This volume is guided by a fundamental question: How must nature be rethought so that human minds and freedom do not appear to be either impossible or inexplicable within it?
Asked differently: How must the natural world itself be structured such that sapient subjects in all their distinctive peculiarities emerged from and continue to exist within this world?
In A Weak Nature Alone, Johnston develops his transcendental materialist account of nature through engaging with and weaving together five main sources of inspiration: Hegelian philosophy, Marxist materialism, Freudian-Lacanian metapsychology, Anglo-American analytic neo-Hegelianism, and evolutionary theory and neurobiology.
Johnston argues that these seemingly (but not really) strange bedfellows should be brought together so as to construct a contemporary ontology of nature.
Through this ontology, nonnatural human subjects can be seen to arise in an immanent, bottom-up fashion from nature itself.
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- Pages:396 pages
- Publisher:Northwestern University Press
- Publication Date:30/09/2019
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- ISBN:9780810140622
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In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:396 pages
- Publisher:Northwestern University Press
- Publication Date:30/09/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9780810140622