Buku ini menyajikan antropologi-filosofis Lacan yang bertujuan untuk memaparkan pemahaman Jacques Lacan mengenai Subjek, sekaligus melihat posisi Lacan dalam dunia intelektual, psikoanalisa, dan juga kebudayaan modern. Jacques Lacan dianggap sebagai seorang pemikir yang elah menjelaskan Subjek dengan detail. Pemikirannya memberikan sumbangsih yang besar dalam perkembangan ilmu pengetahuan dan m…
Modernitas perlu dikritik, karena membuat dunia-kehidupan terjajah. Kebebasan dan keadilan , kebahagiaan dan realisasi-diri yang dicita-citakan semakin menjauh, sementara manusia makin takluk oleh kuasa ilmu pengetahuan dan teknologi. Anomi, alienasi, rancunya identitas dan rapuhnya eksistensi adalah bukti yang tak bisa dipungkiri. Parahnya lagi, tempat menggantungkan harapan nyaris tidak ada, …
Our knowledge comes primarily from experience. But is experience really what it seems? Is it reliable? Empiricist philosophers accept a 'commonsense' view of the phenomena we observe and yet conclude that all we can ever know are 'ideas'. Physical reality may not exist at all! The experimental breakthroughs of Kepler, Galileo and Newton - a radical new outlook in 17th-century science - informed…
Two countervailing trends mark the intellectual tenor of our age the spread of naturalistic worldviews and religious orthodoxies. Advances in biogenetics, brain research, and robotics are clearing the way for the penetration of an objective scientific self-understanding of persons into everyday life. For philosophy, this trend is associated with the challenge of scientific naturalism. At the sa…
The concern of this work is with developing an alternative to standard categories in theology and philosophy, especially in terms of how they deal with nature. Avoiding the polemics of much contemporary reflection on nature, it shows how we are connected to nature through the unconscious and its unique way of reading and processing signs. Suggestions are made for a post-Christian way of underst…