Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism: The Outcome of Contemporary French Philosophy

Contents

Contents Preface Clearing the Ground: The First Volume of Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism xi Acknowledgments xvii Introduction “One Surely Will Be Found One Day to Make an Ontology with What I Am Telling You”: The Road to a Post-Lacanian Materialism 3 Part 1. Jacques Lacan: Between the Sacred and the Secular 1 Conflicted Matter: The Challenge of Secularizing Materialism 13 2 Turning the Sciences Inside Out: Revisiting “Science and Truth” 39 3 On Deep History and Psychoanalysis: Phylogenetic Time in Lacanian Theory 59 Part 2. Alain Badiou: Between Form and Matter 4 What Matter(s) in Ontology: The Hebb-Event and Materialism Split from Within 81 5 Phantom of Consistency: Kant Troubles 108 Part 3. Quentin Meillassoux: Between Faith and Knowledge 6 The World Before Worlds: The Ancestral and Badiou’s Anti-Kantian Transcendentalism 131 7 Hume’s Revenge: À Dieu, Meillassoux? 148 Postface From Critique to Construction: Toward a Transcendental Materialism 175 Notes 211 Works Cited 235 Index 253 ...