Lacan's Ethics and Nietzsche's Critique of Platonism

AvTim Themi

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

Del i serien SUNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature

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Brings Lacan and Nietzsche together as part of a common effort to rethink the tradition of Western ethics.Bringing together Jacques Lacan and Friedrich Nietzsche, Tim Themi focuses on their conceptions of ethics and on their accounts of the history of ethical thinking in the Western tradition. Nietzsche blames Plato for setting in motion a degenerative process that turned ethics away from nature, the body, and its senses, and thus eventually against our capacities for reason, science, and a creative, flourishing life. Dismissing Plato's Supreme Good as a "mirage," Lacan is very much in sympathy with Nietzsche's reading. Following this premise, Themi shows how Lacan's ethics might build on Nietzsche's work, thus contributing to our understanding of Nietzsche, and also how Nietzsche's critique can strengthen our understanding of Lacan.

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Utgivningsdatum:2015-01-02
Mått:152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt:290 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:SUNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9781438450407

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Tim Themi has a PhD in philosophy and teaches at Deakin University in Australia.

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"Enthusiastically brave in both its conception and its execution, immaculate in its research and its attention to detail, and intellectually stunning (in both senses of the term), this book is a triumph." — Journal of Pedagogic Development

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AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction1. The Deflationary Ontology of Lacan and Nietzche1.1 Lacan’s Tripartite Schema with Nietzche’s Critique of Plato’s Good1.2 Lacan’s Freudian Thing in the Critique of Aristotle’s Good2. Distinguishing Weak Sublimation From the Strong2.1 The Promise of Sublimation and Its Discontents2.2 Lacan’s Treatment of Sublimation2.3 Nietzche’s Distinction between Weak and Strong3. Before the Good: Strong Ethics in Sophocles’ Antigone3.1 Creon against Antigone: In the Name of the Good3.2 Antigone against Creon: Lacan, the Beautiful, a Second Death3.3 Before the Good: Nietzche’s Strong Dionysian Catharsis4. Birth of the Good: Weak Ethics in Socrates’ Alcibiades4.1 Lacan’s Analysis of Symposium Speeches Prior to Socrates4.2 The Speech of Socrates: Denaturalizing with Diotima4.3 Enter Alcibiades: Renaturalizing with Object Agalma5. God of the Good: Christocentric Oedipal Morality5.1 The Deaths of God in Lacan’s Seminar VII5.2 Recapitulating a Decade Later in Seminar XVII5.3 The Nietzschean Appraisal from The Anti-Christ6. Service of Goods: Nature and Desire in Modern Science6.1 Lacan’s Critique of Science in Seminar XVII6.2 Nietzche’s Empiricist-centered Positive Comments on Science6.3 Lacan’s Mathematics-centered Positive Comments on ScienceConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex