Adrian Johnston | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1974 (age 50–51) |
| Education | |
| Alma mater | Stony Brook University |
| Thesis | Time Driven: Metapsychology and the Splitting of the Drive |
| Doctoral advisors | Edward S. Casey,Slavoj Žižek |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Continental philosophy Freudo-Marxism[1] Lacanianism Speculative realism[2] |
Adrian Johnston (born 1974) is an American philosopher. He is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy at theUniversity of New Mexico atAlbuquerque and a faculty member at the Emory Psychoanalytic Institute inAtlanta.[3]
Influenced bySlavoj Žižek and his readings ofGerman idealism, Johnston's work is guided by what he calls “transcendental materialism”: an ontology that is materialist while nevertheless refusing to reduce away the gap that is human subjectivity. Johnston argues for retoolingFreud andLacan after the success of the natural sciences in recent decades, while also arguing that Freud and Lacan presaged many of these successes. Johnston is critical of the thinkers of immanence whom he believes can only give us subjectless substance.[4]
Adrian Johnston has published and co-edited a number of books, listed here. He is also a co-editor of the book seriesDiaeresis at Northwestern University Press.
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