Themi Lacan's Ethics and Nietzsche's Critique of Platonism

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4384-5041-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature

Brings Lacan and Nietzsche together as part of a common effort to rethink the tradition of Western ethics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Themi, Tim

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction

1. The Deflationary Ontology of Lacan and Nietzche

1.1 Lacan’s Tripartite Schema with Nietzche’s Critique of Plato’s Good
1.2 Lacan’s Freudian Thing in the Critique of Aristotle’s Good

2. Distinguishing Weak Sublimation From the Strong

2.1 The Promise of Sublimation and Its Discontents
2.2 Lacan’s Treatment of Sublimation
2.3 Nietzche’s Distinction between Weak and Strong

3. Before the Good: Strong Ethics in Sophocles’ Antigone

3.1 Creon against Antigone: In the Name of the Good
3.2 Antigone against Creon: Lacan, the Beautiful, a Second Death
3.3 Before the Good: Nietzche’s Strong Dionysian Catharsis

4. Birth of the Good: Weak Ethics in Socrates’ Alcibiades

4.1 Lacan’s Analysis of Symposium Speeches Prior to Socrates
4.2 The Speech of Socrates: Denaturalizing with Diotima
4.3 Enter Alcibiades: Renaturalizing with Object Agalma

5. God of the Good: Christocentric Oedipal Morality

5.1 The Deaths of God in Lacan’s Seminar VII
5.2 Recapitulating a Decade Later in Seminar XVII
5.3 The Nietzschean Appraisal from The Anti-Christ

6. Service of Goods: Nature and Desire in Modern Science

6.1 Lacan’s Critique of Science in Seminar XVII
6.2 Nietzche’s Empiricist-centered Positive Comments on Science
6.3 Lacan’s Mathematics-centered Positive Comments on Science

Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tim Themi has a PhD in philosophy and teaches at Deakin University in Australia.