Adrian Johnston
Biographic Data
| ID | 3634964 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adrian Johnston |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adrian |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnston |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSTON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Mexico |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8726-8055 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The mother of every insane form
Money is the epitome of Marx's fetishised commodity. And, in Marxist discussions of the connected topics of currency and commodity fetishism, it often is left under-appreciated that such fetishism reaches its apotheosis only with the development of 'interest-bearing capital.' Herein, I perform two complementary gestures, one as regards Marxism and another with respect to psychoanalysis. Apropos Marxism, I counter-balance the usual, long-standing …
The Triumph of Theological Economics
Both Marx and Freud are children of the Enlightenment in certain manners. As such, they each display a qualified but firm optimism about history inevitably making progress in specific desirable directions. Freud predicts that continuing scientific and technological advances eventually will drive religiosity from human societies once and for all. Marx likewise forecasts the withering away of religions. Moreover, he treats this predicted process as…
A New German Idealism
Adrian Johnston offers a first-of-its-kind sustained critical response to Slavoj Žižek's Less Than Nothing and Absolute Recoil, in which Žižek returns to Hegel. Johnston develops what he calls transcendental materialism, an antireductive materialism capable of preserving and advancing the legacies of the Hegelian, Marxian, and Freudian traditions.
Adventures in Transcendental Materialism
A new materialist theory of subjectivity mobilising philosophy, psychoanalysis, politics and science Read and download the series editor's preface and the introduction to Adventures in Transcendental Materialism for free now (pdf) Read a Q&A between the author, Adrian Johnston, and Speculative Realism series editor Graham Harman (pdf) Since Bacon, Gallileo and Descartes in the early 17th century, the relations between science and religion as well…
“The object in the mirror of genetic transcendentalism
The Voiding of Weak Nature
The misfeeling of what happens
Affekt, Gefühl, Empfindung
Research Article| December 01 2010 Affekt, Gefühl, Empfindung: Rereading Freud on the Question of Unconscious Affects Adrian Johnston Adrian Johnston Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2010) 18 (2): 249–289. https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.18.2.249 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permi…
Adrian Johnston's Reply to Clayton Crockett's Review of his Book
Nihil Unbound
Life Terminable and Interminable
Life Terminable and Interminable:The Undead and the Afterlife of the Afterlife—A Friendly Disagreement with Martin Hägglund Adrian Johnston (bio) § 1 From the Religion of Survival to the Survival of Religion —The Difficulties of Atheism Jacques Lacan's 1974 interview with Italian journalists in Rome, entitled "The Triumph of Religion," implicitly addresses what has come to appear, with the benefit of hindsight, as a failure of vision on Freud's p…
The World Before Worlds
Phantom of consistency
Alain badiou, the hebb-event, and materialism split from within
Alain Badiou presents his philosophy as thoroughly and consistently materialist in ways that follow in the footsteps of thinkers ranging from Lucretius to Mao. However, considering Badiou's decisio
Time Driven
The Cynic's Fetish
Beyond Gender
Against Adaptation
Due to what is commonly referred to as Lacan's "notorious difficulty," the vast majority of secondary literature produced by Lacanian scholars is aimed at providing a comprehensive introductory overview to the typically cryptic writings and oracular pronouncements of the French Freud. Commentaries on Lacan generally seek to highlight the most important theses traversing his theoretical developments, thereby furnishing a streamlined presentation t…
Confronting the New Sophists
Confronting the New Sophists Adrian Johnston (bio) Jason Barker, Alian Badiou: A Critical Introduction (London: Pluto Press, 2002) Exactly who is Alain Badiou? His name is being mentioned with increasing frequency amongst English-speaking theorists. Slavoj Zizek publicly proclaims that he is the next major philosophical figure emerging from France after Derrida. But, despite this, only three of his many books — Badiou has been steadily publishing…
Why Psychoanalysis? (review)
Why Psychoanalysis? Elisabeth Roudinesco. 1999. Trans. Rachel Bowlby. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. 181 pp. $22.50
Time Driven
The Cynic's Fetish
Alain badiou, the hebb-event, and materialism split from within
Alain Badiou presents his philosophy as thoroughly and consistently materialist in ways that follow in the footsteps of thinkers ranging from Lucretius to Mao. However, considering Badiou's decisio
Confronting the New Sophists
Confronting the New Sophists Adrian Johnston (bio) Jason Barker, Alian Badiou: A Critical Introduction (London: Pluto Press, 2002) Exactly who is Alain Badiou? His name is being mentioned with increasing frequency amongst English-speaking theorists. Slavoj Zizek publicly proclaims that he is the next major philosophical figure emerging from France after Derrida. But, despite this, only three of his many books — Badiou has been steadily publishing…
Why Psychoanalysis? (review)
Why Psychoanalysis? Elisabeth Roudinesco. 1999. Trans. Rachel Bowlby. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. 181 pp. $22.50
Beyond Gender
Against Adaptation
Due to what is commonly referred to as Lacan's "notorious difficulty," the vast majority of secondary literature produced by Lacanian scholars is aimed at providing a comprehensive introductory overview to the typically cryptic writings and oracular pronouncements of the French Freud. Commentaries on Lacan generally seek to highlight the most important theses traversing his theoretical developments, thereby furnishing a streamlined presentation t…
The Cynic's Fetish
Time Driven
Phantom of consistency
Alain badiou, the hebb-event, and materialism split from within
Alain Badiou presents his philosophy as thoroughly and consistently materialist in ways that follow in the footsteps of thinkers ranging from Lucretius to Mao. However, considering Badiou's decisio
Nihil Unbound
Life Terminable and Interminable
Life Terminable and Interminable:The Undead and the Afterlife of the Afterlife—A Friendly Disagreement with Martin Hägglund Adrian Johnston (bio) § 1 From the Religion of Survival to the Survival of Religion —The Difficulties of Atheism Jacques Lacan's 1974 interview with Italian journalists in Rome, entitled "The Triumph of Religion," implicitly addresses what has come to appear, with the benefit of hindsight, as a failure of vision on Freud's p…
The World Before Worlds
The misfeeling of what happens
Affekt, Gefühl, Empfindung
Research Article| December 01 2010 Affekt, Gefühl, Empfindung: Rereading Freud on the Question of Unconscious Affects Adrian Johnston Adrian Johnston Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2010) 18 (2): 249–289. https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.18.2.249 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permi…
Adrian Johnston's Reply to Clayton Crockett's Review of his Book
The Voiding of Weak Nature
“The object in the mirror of genetic transcendentalism
Adventures in Transcendental Materialism
A new materialist theory of subjectivity mobilising philosophy, psychoanalysis, politics and science Read and download the series editor's preface and the introduction to Adventures in Transcendental Materialism for free now (pdf) Read a Q&A between the author, Adrian Johnston, and Speculative Realism series editor Graham Harman (pdf) Since Bacon, Gallileo and Descartes in the early 17th century, the relations between science and religion as well…
A New German Idealism
Adrian Johnston offers a first-of-its-kind sustained critical response to Slavoj Žižek's Less Than Nothing and Absolute Recoil, in which Žižek returns to Hegel. Johnston develops what he calls transcendental materialism, an antireductive materialism capable of preserving and advancing the legacies of the Hegelian, Marxian, and Freudian traditions.
The Triumph of Theological Economics
Both Marx and Freud are children of the Enlightenment in certain manners. As such, they each display a qualified but firm optimism about history inevitably making progress in specific desirable directions. Freud predicts that continuing scientific and technological advances eventually will drive religiosity from human societies once and for all. Marx likewise forecasts the withering away of religions. Moreover, he treats this predicted process as…
The mother of every insane form
Money is the epitome of Marx's fetishised commodity. And, in Marxist discussions of the connected topics of currency and commodity fetishism, it often is left under-appreciated that such fetishism reaches its apotheosis only with the development of 'interest-bearing capital.' Herein, I perform two complementary gestures, one as regards Marxism and another with respect to psychoanalysis. Apropos Marxism, I counter-balance the usual, long-standing …
Philosophy (14 works) · Epistemology (11 works) · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Psychoanalysis (8 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Materialism (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works)