{"product_id":"prolegomena-to-any-future-materialism-a-weak-nature-alone-9780810140622","title":"Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism: A Weak Nature Alone","description":"Adrian Johnston's trilogy \u003ci\u003eProlegomena to Any Future Materialism\u003c\/i\u003e aims to forge a thoroughly materialist yet antireductive theory of subjectivity. In this second volume, \u003ci\u003eA Weak Nature Alone\u003c\/i\u003e, Johnston focuses on the philosophy of nature required for such a theory. This volume is guided by a fundamental question: How must nature be rethought so that human minds and freedom do not appear to be either impossible or inexplicable within it? Asked differently: How must the natural world itself be structured such that sapient subjects in all their distinctive peculiarities emerged from and continue to exist within this world? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eA Weak Nature Alone\u003c\/i\u003e, Johnston develops his transcendental materialist account of nature through engaging with and weaving together five main sources of inspiration: Hegelian philosophy, Marxist materialism, Freudian-Lacanian metapsychology, Anglo-American analytic neo-Hegelianism, and evolutionary theory and neurobiology. Johnston argues that these seemingly (but not really) strange bedfellows should be brought together so as to construct a contemporary ontology of nature. Through this ontology, nonnatural human subjects can be seen to arise in an immanent, bottom-up fashion from nature itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eADRIAN JOHNSTON \u003c\/b\u003eis a professor of philosophy at the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque and a faculty member at the Emory Psychoanalytic Institute in Atlanta. He is the author of seven books, including \u003ci\u003eTime Driven: Metapsychology and the Splitting of the Drive\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Zizek's Ontology: A Transcendental Materialist Theory of Subjectivity\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBadiou, Zizek, and Political Transformations: The Cadence of Change, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eProlegomena to Any Future Materialism, Volume One: The Outcome of Contemporary French Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e, all published by Northwestern University Press.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50845441523986,"sku":"9780810140622","price":43.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_088eb66c-f075-48e5-bac5-4bf3aeb1c4aa.jpg?v=1737350943","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/prolegomena-to-any-future-materialism-a-weak-nature-alone-9780810140622","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}