Parallax, or the change in the position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight and more precisely, the assumption that this adjustment is not only due to a change of focus, but a change in that object’s ontological status has been a key philosophical concept throughout history. Building upon Slavoj Žižek’s The Parallax View, this volume shows how parallax is used as a figure of thought that proves how the incompatibility between the physical and the theoretical touches not only upon the ontological, but also politics and aesthetics. With articles written by internationally renowned philosophers such as Frank Ruda, Graham Harman, Paul Livingston and Zizek himself, this book shows how modes of parallax remain in numerous modern theoretical disciplines, such as the Marxian parallax in the critique of political economy and politics; and the Hegelian parallax in the concept of the work of art, while also being important to debates surrounding speculative realism and dialectical materialism. Spanning philosophy, parallax is then a rich and fruitful concept that can illuminate the studies of those working in epistemology, ontology, German Idealism, political philosophy and critical theory.
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Preface: Hegel and the Ethical Parallax, Slavoj Žižek IntroductionPart 1: Parallax in Ontology1. Parallactic Entanglement: On the Subject-Object-Relation in New Materialism and Adorno’s Critical Ontology, Dirk Quadflieg (University of Leipzig, Germany)2. Žižek’s Parallax, or The Inherent Stupidity of All Philosophical Positions, Graham Harman (SCI-Arc, Los Angeles, USA)3. How Mind fits into Nature. Mental Realism after Nagel, Markus Gabriel (University of Bonn, Germany)4. Parallax in Hermeneutic Realism, Anton Friedrich Koch (University of Heidelberg, Germany)5. Object-Disoriented Ontology. Realism in Psychoanalysis,Alenka Zupancic (Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenia)6. Temporal Paradox, Realism, and Subjectivity, Paul Livingston (Albuquerque University, USA)7. The Parallactic Leap: Fichte, Apperception, and the Hard Problem of Consciousness, G. Anthony Bruno (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)8. The Parallax of Ontology: Reality and its Transcendental Supplement, Slavoj Žižek (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)Part 2: Parallax in Normative Orders9. Truth as Subjective Effect. Adorno or Hegel, Christoph Menke (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany)10. Is Sex a Transcendental Category of Parallax? Revisiting the Feminist Second Wave, Nina Power (Roehampton University, UK)11. The Irony of Self-Consciousness: Hegel, Derrida, and the Animal that therefore I am, Thomas Khurana (Yale University, USA)12. A Squinting Gaze on the Parallax Between Spirit and Nature, Frank Ruda (University of Dundee, UK)13. “I am nothing, but I make everything”: Marx, Lacan, and the Labor Theory of Suture, Adrian Johnston (University of New Mexico at Albuquerque)Part 3: Parallax in Aesthetics14. Drama as Philosophy. The Tragedy of the End of Art, Todd McGowan (University of Vermont, USA)15. Parallaxes of Sinister Enjoyment: The Lessons of Interpassivity and the Contemporary Troubles with Pleasure, Robert Pfaller (University of the Arts, Linz, Austria)16. Whiteheadian Aesthetics: On “Nautical Positionality” from a Process-Ontological Perspective, Eva Schürmann(University of Magdeburg, Germany)17. Feeling at a Distance, or the Aesthetics of Unconscious Transmission, Tracy McNulty (Cornell University, USA)18. The Dream That Knew Too Much. On Freud, Lacan, and Philip K. Dick, Dominik Finkelde (Munich School of Philosophy, Germany)Notes on the contributorsIndex of namesIndex of subjects
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The editors of the anthology have succeeded in providing the academic community with a comprehensive overview of ['parallax'] logic.
An edited volume exploring the philosophical concept of parallax throughout philosophy with contributions from globally- renowned philosophers like Slavoj Žižek, Frank Ruda, Graham Harman and Paul Livingston.
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Includes contributions from renowned thinkers such as Slavoj Žižek, Frank Ruda and Graham Harman

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781350253377
Publisert
2023-02-23
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
272

Biographical note

Dominik Finkelde is Professor of Epistemology and Contemporary Philosophy at the Munich School of Philosophy. He publishes on contemporary philosophy and German Idealism, especially on Hegel, Kant, Lacan, Frege, Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Žižek and Badiou.

Christoph Menke is Professor for Practical Philosophy at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. His research focuses on political and legal philosophy, theories of subjectivity, ethics and aesthetics.

Slavoj Žižek is Professor at the Institute for Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and the International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London, UK. His recent publications include Hegel in a Wired Brain (2020), Sex and the Failed Absolute (2019), Disparities (2016), and Antigone (2016), all published by Bloomsbury.