Adrian Johnston
Distinguished Professor
Email: aojohns@unm.edu
Office: Humanities 557
Hours: Tuesdays 1-3PM
- B.A. (University of Texas at Austin, 1996)
- Ph.D. (State University of New York at Stony Brook, 2001)
Bio:
Adrian Johnston is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque and a faculty member at the Emory Psychoanalytic Institute in Atlanta. He is the author of Time Driven: Metapsychology and the Splitting of the Drive (2005), Žižek’s Ontology: A Transcendental Materialist Theory of Subjectivity (2008), Badiou, Žižek, and Political Transformations: The Cadence of Change (2009), Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism, Volume One: The Outcome of Contemporary French Philosophy (2013), and Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism, Volume Two: A Weak Nature Alone (2019), all published by Northwestern University Press. He also is the author of Adventures in Transcendental Materialism: Dialogues with Contemporary Thinkers (Edinburgh University Press, 2014), Irrepressible Truth: On Lacan’s “The Freudian Thing” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), and A New German Idealism: Hegel, Žižek, and Dialectical Materialism (Columbia University Press, 2018). He is the co-author, with Catherine Malabou, of Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience (Columbia University Press, 2013). He recently co-edited, with Boštjan Nedoh and Alenka Zupančič, Objective Fictions: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Marxism (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022). His latest books are Infinite Greed: The Inhuman Selfishness of Capital (Columbia University Press, 2024) and, with co-author Lorenzo Chiesa, God Is Undead: Psychoanalysis for Unbelievers (Bloomsbury, 2024).