Ontological Catastrophe: Žižek and the Paradoxical Metaphysics of German Idealism

In Ontological Catastrophe, Joseph Carew takes up the central question guiding Slavoj Žižek philosophy: How could something like phenomenal reality emerge out of the meaninglessness of the Real? Carefully reconstructing and expanding upon his controversial reactualization of German Idealism, Carew...

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Main Author: Carew, Joseph (auth)
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Open Humanities Press 2014
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