Title: Towards a rogue reality
First published: 1998
Description: Arthur Schopenhauer articulated a rogue reality that contrasts with the intelligible (aristocratic) reality defined by Kant as the "thing in itself" and the quantifiable (bourgeois) reality embodied in the notion of energy. The rogue reality provided the brain model for Freud's later works, and the conceptual foundation for the "death drive" of Lacan's theory. The rogue reality is accompanied by a non-Cartesian dualism that is fundamental to the modernist impulse.
Subjects: Intellectual life, Will, Reality, Europe, intellectual life
Places: Europe
Time periods: 20th century, 19th century
LC classification: BD331 .F86 1998