12 (From the Lie in the Closed World to) Lying in an Infinite Universe

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Notes on Contributors viii
5. Introduction: Beyond the Nominalism-Realism Divide: Objective Fictions from Bentham through Marx to Lacan 1
6. 1 Marx’s Theory of Fictions 13
7. 2 Is Surplus Value Structured Like an Anamorphosis? Marx, Lacan and the Structure of Objective Fiction 24
8. 3 Shades of Green: Lacan and Capitalism’s Veils 45
9. 4 From the Orderly World to the Polluted Unworld 64
10. 5 The Genesis of a False Dichotomy: A Critique of Conceptual Alienation 85
11. 6 Nietzsche’s Critique of Objectivity and Its ‘Tools’ 105
12. 7 Tips and Tricks: Remarks on the Debate between Badiou and Cassin on ‘Sophistics’ 124
13. 8 On Rumours, Gossip and Related Matters 144
14. 9 ‘There is no such thing as the subject that thinks’: Wittgenstein and Lacan on Truth and the Subject 165
15. 10 The Awful Truth: Games and Their Relation to the Unconscious 183
16. 11 The Objective Construction: Freud and the Primal Scene 198
17. 12 (From the Lie in the Closed World to) Lying in an Infinite Universe 217
18. 13 A Short Essay on Conspiracy Theories 232
19. Index 250