Adrian Johnston
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first heard Jan 2020
last heard Jan 2020
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Well, thank you so much for inviting me.
I'm very much looking forward to our discussion.
Yes.
Well, starting with Zizek as a point of reference, what he and I share most in common are our set of interests and a commitment to interfacing those with each other in a systematic fashion.
And so for both of us, there are three main orientations that we each conjure with and that we seek to
weave together in various ways.
And that would be German idealism, so Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, and some of the figures surrounding them.
Secondly, Marxism, so the Marxist tradition from Marx and Engels themselves all the way up through the present.
And third and finally, Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis.
And these three European intellectual traditions or orientations are
are crucial for both Zizek and myself.
And we are both interested in developing a systematic philosophical framework that is grounded on an ontology informed by all three of these sources.
And in terms of some of my other interests that are related to what I've just sketched,
I, in the past decade or so of my work, have spent a lot of time looking at connections between this project of a systematic philosophical framework with an ontology and theory of subjectivity, bringing together these three European sources of inspiration, interfacing this with, on the one hand, the natural sciences, and for me particularly, neurobiology.
Zizek has become increasingly more interested in and committed to engaging with quantum physics.
And then also, of course, contemporary political theory.
So the connection between this kind of philosophical framework and both science and politics keeps me busy, let's say, and will probably keep me busy for a good number of years to come in terms of my ongoing research work.
Yes, but I want to make a prefatory remark that I think will be very helpful for addressing a number of the subsequent questions that you have prepared for me.
And Hegel is an extremely interesting case in terms of a canonical figure in the Western philosophical tradition.
It's been noted several times by commentators that basically if, you know, someone utterly unfamiliar with our cultural context, with no knowledge of the history of philosophy or history of ideas more broadly, were to be presented with a representative sample, a kind of, you know, sizable cross-section of philosophical literature in which the name Hegel is mentioned or even featured centrally.
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