Ontology and Perversion: Deleuze, Agamben, Lacan
This book examines the philosophical and political relevance of perversion in the works of three key representatives of contemporary philosophy and psychoanalysis: Gilles Deleuze, Giorgio Agamben and Jacques Lacan.

Perversion is often understood simply in terms of cultural or sexual phenomena. By contrast, Boštjan Nedoh places perversion at the heart of philosophical, ontological and political issues in the works of Deleuze, Agamben and Lacan. He examines the relevance of their discussions of perversion for their respective critical ontological projects. By tracing the differences between these thinkers’ understanding of perversion, the book finally draws lines of delimitation between the vitalist and the structuralist or psychoanalytic philosophical positions in contemporary philosophy.

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Ontology and Perversion: Deleuze, Agamben, Lacan
This book examines the philosophical and political relevance of perversion in the works of three key representatives of contemporary philosophy and psychoanalysis: Gilles Deleuze, Giorgio Agamben and Jacques Lacan.

Perversion is often understood simply in terms of cultural or sexual phenomena. By contrast, Boštjan Nedoh places perversion at the heart of philosophical, ontological and political issues in the works of Deleuze, Agamben and Lacan. He examines the relevance of their discussions of perversion for their respective critical ontological projects. By tracing the differences between these thinkers’ understanding of perversion, the book finally draws lines of delimitation between the vitalist and the structuralist or psychoanalytic philosophical positions in contemporary philosophy.

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Ontology and Perversion: Deleuze, Agamben, Lacan

Ontology and Perversion: Deleuze, Agamben, Lacan

by Bostjan Nedoh Research Assistant, Insti
Ontology and Perversion: Deleuze, Agamben, Lacan

Ontology and Perversion: Deleuze, Agamben, Lacan

by Bostjan Nedoh Research Assistant, Insti

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This book examines the philosophical and political relevance of perversion in the works of three key representatives of contemporary philosophy and psychoanalysis: Gilles Deleuze, Giorgio Agamben and Jacques Lacan.

Perversion is often understood simply in terms of cultural or sexual phenomena. By contrast, Boštjan Nedoh places perversion at the heart of philosophical, ontological and political issues in the works of Deleuze, Agamben and Lacan. He examines the relevance of their discussions of perversion for their respective critical ontological projects. By tracing the differences between these thinkers’ understanding of perversion, the book finally draws lines of delimitation between the vitalist and the structuralist or psychoanalytic philosophical positions in contemporary philosophy.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781786605511
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 06/04/2019
Series: Futures of the Archive
Pages: 214
Product dimensions: 6.23(w) x 9.46(h) x 0.89(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Boštjan Nedoh is a Research Fellow at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute of Philosophy, Ljubljana.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Part I: Introductory: Perversion as a Theatre of Being

1 Perversions and Critical Ontologies: Ontologysing Perversion, Perverting Ontology in Deleuze, Agamben, and Lacan

Part II: Perversion between Deleuze’s Transcendental Empiricism and the Ontology of Immanence Theatrum Philosophicum

2 Deleuze’s Transcendental Empiricism: Simulacrum, Divergence and the Ontology of Difference

3 Masoch as a Name-of-Being

4 From Masoch to Tao: The Revision of Masochism in Late Deleuze

Part III: Beyond Metaphysics? Perversion in Agamben’s Philosophy of Language and Political Philosophy Theatrum Politicum

5 Perverse Sphinx Against Oedipal Metaphysics: (Anti-)Metaphysics of Perversion in Agamben’s Critique of Derrida and Freud

6 Messianism between Religion and Post-Religion: On the Perverse Structure of the Messianic Time

7 State of Exception and Sade’s Biopolitical Manifesto

Part IV: Not Without the Other: Ontology and Perversion in Lacanian Psychoanalysis Theatrum Analiticum

8 Why Perversion Is Not the Norm of the Drive? Polymorphous Perversion from Freud to Lacan

9 The Birth of Perversion from the Death on the Cross: Lacan, Žižek and the Question of Christian Atheism

10 The Sadistic Superego: From the Prohibition to the Imperative of Jouissance

Conclusion

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