TY - GEN AU - Carew,Joseph TI - Ontological Catastrophe: Žižek and the Paradoxical Metaphysics of German Idealism SN - ohp.12763629.0001.001 PY - 2014/// PB - Open Humanities Press KW - Philosophy KW - bicssc KW - subjectivity KW - realism KW - phenomenal reality KW - slavoj žižek KW - german idealism KW - Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling KW - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel KW - Immanuel Kant KW - Jacques Lacan KW - Metaphysics KW - Ontology KW - Psychoanalysis N1 - Open Access N2 - In Ontological Catastrophe, Joseph Carew takes up the central question guiding Slavoj Žižek philosophy: How could something like phenomenal reality emerge out of the meaninglessness of the Real? Carefully reconstructing and expanding upon his controversial reactualization of German Idealism, Carew argues that Žižek offers us an original, but perhaps terrifying, response: experience is possible only if we presuppose a prior moment of breakdown as the ontogenetic basis of subjectivity. Drawing upon resources found in Žižek, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and post-Kantian philosophy, Carew thus develops a new critical metaphysics—a metaphysics which is a variation upon the late German Idealist theme of balancing system and freedom, realism and idealism, in a single, self-reflexive theoretical construct—that challenges our understanding of nature, culture, and the ultimate structure of reality UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33307/1/507291.pdf UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33307/1/507291.pdf UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33307/1/507291.pdf UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33307/1/507291.pdf UR - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/36057 ER -