Subjectivity as a Feature of Reality: On Diffraction Laws of Consciousness and Reality Within Justified True Belief
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Dominik Finkelde
Abstract
In any account of how things really are, subjectivity can be both a formal and a distorting factor for Hegel and Lacan’s adaptation of Hegelian dialectics. Lacan speaks of a pre-theoretical experience of being in the world where human beings are literally called by reality to be social agents and fill in gaps of this reality at the same time with their fantasies. As such, fantasies play an epistemic role, neglected often in both epistemological and ontological debates. But since the status of reality, with or without fantasies, is never all and complete, antagonisms within reality cannot be contained. Ontology, as our inquiry into ‘what there is,’ affects ‘what there is’ in that subjectivity, troubled by antagonism, always goes beyond established forms of facts, theoretically, practically and phantasmagorically. Finkelde argues, especially with reference to Kant and Hegel, that subjectivity, with its imaginary intertwinement of what Lacan calls the symbolic order, is a feature of reality (as virtuality) and not just a hallmark of the conscious mind.
Abstract
In any account of how things really are, subjectivity can be both a formal and a distorting factor for Hegel and Lacan’s adaptation of Hegelian dialectics. Lacan speaks of a pre-theoretical experience of being in the world where human beings are literally called by reality to be social agents and fill in gaps of this reality at the same time with their fantasies. As such, fantasies play an epistemic role, neglected often in both epistemological and ontological debates. But since the status of reality, with or without fantasies, is never all and complete, antagonisms within reality cannot be contained. Ontology, as our inquiry into ‘what there is,’ affects ‘what there is’ in that subjectivity, troubled by antagonism, always goes beyond established forms of facts, theoretically, practically and phantasmagorically. Finkelde argues, especially with reference to Kant and Hegel, that subjectivity, with its imaginary intertwinement of what Lacan calls the symbolic order, is a feature of reality (as virtuality) and not just a hallmark of the conscious mind.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Table of Contents V
- Introduction 1
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Part 1 Idealism
- Metaphysics, Thinking, and Being 17
- Jacobi’s Dare: McDowell, Meillassoux, and Consistent Idealism 35
- How Not to Be a Naïve Realist: On Knowledge and Perception 57
- Is Hermeneutic Realism a Dialectical Materialism? 81
- Nature After Nature, or Naturephilosophical Futurism 97
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Part 2 Relativism
- Metaontological Deflationism and Ontological Realism 115
- Stances, Voluntarism, Relativism 131
- Subjectivity as a Feature of Reality: On Diffraction Laws of Consciousness and Reality Within Justified True Belief 155
- Concrete-in-Thought, Concrete-in-Act: Marx, Materialism, and the Exchange Abstraction 175
- Matter and Indifference: Realism and Anti-realism in Feminist Accounts of the Body 193
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Part 3 Realism
- Saying What is Not 217
- Sense, Realism, and Ontological Difference 233
- Realism without Hobbes and Schmitt: Assessing the Latourian Option 257
- The Objectivity of the Actual: Hegelianism as a Metaphysics of Modal Actualism 275
- Nomological Realism 293
- Realism Without Entities 311
- Notes on the contributors 325
- Index of Names 329
- Index of Subjects 333
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Table of Contents V
- Introduction 1
-
Part 1 Idealism
- Metaphysics, Thinking, and Being 17
- Jacobi’s Dare: McDowell, Meillassoux, and Consistent Idealism 35
- How Not to Be a Naïve Realist: On Knowledge and Perception 57
- Is Hermeneutic Realism a Dialectical Materialism? 81
- Nature After Nature, or Naturephilosophical Futurism 97
-
Part 2 Relativism
- Metaontological Deflationism and Ontological Realism 115
- Stances, Voluntarism, Relativism 131
- Subjectivity as a Feature of Reality: On Diffraction Laws of Consciousness and Reality Within Justified True Belief 155
- Concrete-in-Thought, Concrete-in-Act: Marx, Materialism, and the Exchange Abstraction 175
- Matter and Indifference: Realism and Anti-realism in Feminist Accounts of the Body 193
-
Part 3 Realism
- Saying What is Not 217
- Sense, Realism, and Ontological Difference 233
- Realism without Hobbes and Schmitt: Assessing the Latourian Option 257
- The Objectivity of the Actual: Hegelianism as a Metaphysics of Modal Actualism 275
- Nomological Realism 293
- Realism Without Entities 311
- Notes on the contributors 325
- Index of Names 329
- Index of Subjects 333