Ontological Catastrophe: Žižek and the Paradoxical Metaphysics of German Idealism
Negativity, Contradiction, and Rupture in German IdealismBy Joseph Carew
Length13h 44m
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In *Ontological Catastrophe*, Joseph Carew offers a rigorous reconstruction of Slavoj Žižek's engagement with the paradoxes of German Idealism. Focusing on the instability of being, subjectivity, negativity, and the Absolute, the book argues that Žižek's philosophy is best understood not as a commentary on Hegel, Kant, and Schelling, but as a radical reactivation of their metaphysical problems. Carew combines close textual analysis with systematic argument, moving between speculative philosophy, psychoanalysis, and contemporary critical theory. Its style is conceptually demanding yet oriented toward clarification, presenting catastrophe not merely as historical collapse but as an ontological rupture through which reality and subject emerge together. Carew writes from within the renewed scholarly interest in German Idealism and its afterlives in twentieth- and twenty-first-century thought. His study responds to the tendency either to reduce Žižek to political provocation or to treat Hegelian metaphysics as a closed historical episode. By placing Žižek in dialogue with the central figures of Idealism, Carew illuminates the philosophical stakes of Žižek's Lacanian vocabulary and his insistence that contradiction is constitutive rather than accidental. The result reflects a sustained effort to reconcile historical interpretation with speculative reconstruction. This book is recommended to readers seeking a serious account of Žižek's philosophical architecture and to students of Hegel, German Idealism, psychoanalysis, and contemporary ontology. It will be especially valuable to those interested in how metaphysical contradiction can become a resource for rethinking freedom, reality, and political possibility.
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Length13 hrs 44 mins
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Publish dateDec 19, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (Annotated)
2Disclaimer
3Dedication
4Acknowledgements
5Introduction
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6I Death Drive
71. The Madness of the Symbolic
82. Grasping the Vanishing Mediator Between the Real and the Ideal
93. Psychoanalysis and the Enigma of Transcendental Subjectivity
104. The Problem of Nature in the Lacanian Subject
11II Nature Torn Apart
125. Kant, Todestrieb, and Beyond the Pleasure Principle
136. From Transcendental Philosophy to Substance as Subject
147. The Logic of Transcendental Materialism
158. When the World Opens its Eyes
169. The Abyss of Unconscious Decision
1710. Radicalizing the Subject
18III Overcoming Idealism
1911. From Radical Idealism to Critical Metaphysics
2012. The Deadlocks of Ontological Catastrophe
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