Through a novel synthesis of Marxism and psychoanalysis, Adrian Johnston reveals how the relentless pursuit of profits is not fundamentally animated by human acquisitiveness.

Adrian Johnston’s Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism, planned for three volumes, will lay the foundations for a new materialist theoretical apparatus, his transcendental materialism . In this first volume, Johnston…

Adrian Johnston offers a first-of-its-kind sustained critical response to Slavoj Zizek’s Less Than Nothing and Absolute Recoil, in which Zizek returns to Hegel. Johnston develops what he calls transcendental materialism…

Slavoj Zizek is an important philosopher, known chiefly for his theoretical explorations of popular culture and contemporary politics. This book focuses on the philosophical core of Zizek’s work. It addresses…

This collection rethinks the relationship between objectivity and fiction beyond the realismnominalism divide through a series of 'objective fictions', such as fetishes, semblances, lies, rumours, sophistry, fantasies and conspiracy theories…

Responding to the ongoing objectal turn throughout contemporary humanities and social sciences, the eleven essays in Subject Lessons present a sustained case for the continued importance - indeed, the indispensability…