Professor Adrian Johnston recently was interviewed for the New Books Network podcast series
Departmental News
Posted: Jul 21, 2020 - 12:00am
In the contemporary philosophical landscape, a variety of materialist ontologies have appeared, all wrestling with various political and philosophical questions in light of a post-God ontology. Entering into this discussion is Adrian Johnston, with his 3-volume Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism, an attempt to develop a systematic and thoroughly atheistic material ontology of the subject. The first volume, subtitled The Outcome of Contemporary French Philosophy (Northwestern University Press, 2013) looks at three recent French theorists, Jacques Lacan, Alain Badiou and Quentin Meillasoux, arguing that all three ultimately fail to maintain a consistent atheism, regularly relying on various supramaterial elements to hold their systems together. In doing so, the book attempts to clear the ground for a consistently materialist ontology to be pursued in the latter two volumes. This podcast episode can be accessed here: https://newbooksnetwork.com/adrian-johnston-prolegomena-to-any-future-materialism-the-outcome-of-contemporary-french-philosophy-northwestern-up-2013/