Objective Fictions: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Marxism

by Adrian Johnston

Objectivity through the lens of fiction

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Objectivity through the lens of fiction

This edited collection examines how forms commonly associated with illusion or distortion—among them fetishes, semblances, rumours, fantasies and conspiracy theories—can complicate the boundary between fiction and objectivity. Its essays bring modern and contemporary philosophy into conversation with psychoanalytic theory, while resisting a simple division between nominalist and realist positions. The range of topics gives the volume a conceptual framework for considering how claims about what is real are entangled with representation, belief and interpretation.

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Readers interested in philosophy and debates about objectivity and reality
Those exploring the intersections of psychoanalysis and philosophical thought
Readers seeking an edited collection on structuralist and related intellectual traditions

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Objectivity and fictionPhilosophy and psychoanalysisRepresentation, belief and realityNominalism and realism

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This collection rethinks the relationship between objectivity and fiction through a series of 'objective fictions', such as fetishes, semblances, lies, rumours, sophistry, fantasies and conspiracy theories. It engages with modern and contemporary philosophical traditions and psychoanalytic theory, with all of these orientations being irreducible to either nominalist or realist approaches. The contributors are a mix of renowned thinkers and thinkers from the new generation, including Slavoj Zizek, Mladen Dolar, Frank Ruda and Samo Tomsič.

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