“'Naturalism or anti-naturalism? No, thanks — both are worse!ʼ: Science, Materialism, and Slavoj Žižek”

Revue Internationale de Philosophie 261 (3):321-346 (2012)
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In this essay, I respond to Žižek's charges that my turns to biology risk naturalizing away key features of non-natural subjectivity à la German idealism and Lacanianism. The crux of this dispute between him and me concerns how close to or far from a life-science-based naturalism a materialist theory of the subject with allegiances to Kant, Hegel, Freud, and Lacan should be. I contend that materialism must be closer to naturalism than Žižek allows— while insisting simultaneously that the spontaneous naturalism of the cutting edge of the life sciences isn’t the semi-reductive paradigm Žižek believes it to be.

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