Žižek's Ontology w/ Adrian Johnston

Back in July we spoke with Adrian Johnston, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico.
In this first part of a series we’re talking the philosophical foundations of Žižek’s work, the equivalence between negativity and Death Drive at the core of Žižek’s theory of subjectivity, Transcendental Materialism, and Johnston’s efforts toward changing the reception of Žižek’s work.
Adrian has published and co-edited a number of books notably his essential trio on Slavoj Žižek in “Žižek’s Ontology”, “Badiou, Žižek, and Political Transformations: The Cadence of Change”, and “A New German Idealism” and his groundbreaking work in the Prolegomena series and soon to be published "Infinite Greed: Money, Marxism, Psychoanalysis".
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[@first-fundamental-field]

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[@dethkon]

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[@first-fundamental-field]

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[@nifarious]

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[@first-fundamental-field]

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[@nifarious]

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