Objective Fictions: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Marxism

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2021)
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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 Zizek, Mladen Dolar, Frank Ruda and Samo Tomsič.

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9781474489348   1474489338   147448932X

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Introduction: Beyond the Nominalism-Realism Divide: Objective Fictions from Bentham through Marx to Lacan.  (pages 1-12)Adrian Johnston, Boštjan Nedoh & Alenka Zupančič
1. 1 Marx’s Theory of Fictions.  (pages 13-23)Slavoj Žižek
2. 2 Is Surplus Value Structured Like an Anamorphosis? Marx, Lacan and the Structure of Objective Fiction.  (pages 24-44)Boštjan Nedoh
3. 3 Shades of Green: Lacan and Capitalism’s Veils.  (pages 45-63)Adrian Johnston
4. 4 From the Orderly World to the Polluted Unworld.  (pages 64-84)Samo Tomšič
6. Nietzsche’s Critique of Objectivity and Its ‘Tools’.  (pages 105-123)Aleš Bunta
7. 7 Tips and Tricks: Remarks on the Debate between Badiou and Cassin on ‘Sophistics’.  (pages 124-143)Peter Klepec
8. On Rumours, Gossip and Related Matters.  (pages 144-164)Mladen Dolar
9. 9 ‘There is no such thing as the subject that thinks’: Wittgenstein and Lacan on Truth and the Subject.  (pages 165-182)Paul M. Livingston
10. 10 The Awful Truth: Games and Their Relation to the Unconscious.  (pages 183-197)Amanda Holmes
11. 11 The Objective Construction: Freud and the Primal Scene.  (pages 198-216)Tadej Troha
12. 12 Lying in an Infinite Universe.  (pages 217-231)Frank Ruda
13. 13 A Short Essay on Conspiracy Theories.  (pages 232-249)Alenka Zupančič

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