Adrian Johnston is an American philosopher. He is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the

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and a faculty member at the Emory Psychoanalytic Institute in

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Philosophical work

Influenced by

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and his readings of

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, Johnston's work is guided by what he calls “ transcendental materialism”: an ontology that is materialist while nevertheless refusing to reduce away the gap that is human subjectivity. Johnston argues for retooling

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and Lacan after the success of the natural sciences in recent decades, while also arguing that Freud and Lacan presaged many of these successes. Johnston is critical of the thinkers of immanence whom he believes can only give us subjectless substance.

Bibliography

Adrian Johnson has published and co-edited a number of books, listed here. He is also a co-editor of the book series ''Diaeresis'' at Northwestern University Press. * ''Time Driven: Metapsychology and the Splitting of the Drive'' ( Northwestern University Press, 2005) * ''Žižek’s Ontology: A Transcendental Materialist Theory of Subjectivity'' (Northwestern University Press, 2008) * ''Badiou, Žižek, and Political Transformations: The Cadence of Change'' (Northwestern University Press, 2009) * ''Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism, Volume One: The Outcome of Contemporary French Philosophy'' (Northwestern University Press, 2013) * ''Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience'' (Columbia University Press, 2013, with Catherine Malabou) * ''Adventures in Transcendental Materialism: Dialogues with Contemporary Thinkers'' (

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, 2014, with Todd McGowan and

) * ''Irrepressible Truth: On Lacan’s ‘The Freudian Thing’ ''(

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, 2017) * ''A New German Idealism: Hegel, Žižek, and Dialectical Materialism'' (

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, 2018) * ''Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism, Volume Two: A Weak Nature Alone'' (Northwestern University Press, 2019) * ''Objective Fictions: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Marxism'' (Ed.,

, 2022, with Boštjan Nedoh and Alenka Zupančič) * ''Infinite Greed: Money, Marxism, Psychoanalysis'' (forthcoming) * ''Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism, Volume Three: Substance Also as Subject'' (forthcoming) * ''God is Undead: Psychoanalysis Between Agnosticism and Atheism'' (forthcoming, with Lorenzo Chiesa)

References

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