RSam Podcast Todd McGowan: Hegel, Contradiction and Embracing Alienation
Prof. Todd McGowan is a professor of English at the University of Vermont and Professor and Director of Film and Television Studies. He’s authored numerous books on Hegelian philosophy, Lacanian psychoanalysis, existentialism and film studies, including Emancipation After Hegel, Capitalism and Desire, Enjoyment Right & Left and Embracing Alienation. He also hosts the superlative Why Theory podcast and co-organises the Lack conference. Prof. McGowan is in continuous dialogue with his fellow travellers Slavoj Žižek, Alenka Zupančič, Adrian Johnston and others in contemporary Hegelian-Lacanian theory. In this episode, we discuss the Hegel renaissance, Hegelian contradiction, Dialetheism and Paraconsistent logic, ontology from Kant to Hegel, coupling Lacanian psychoanalysis and existentialism, universalism, alienation and Peter Rollins' Church of the Contradiction.
You can find more of Prof. McGowan's work at https://www.uvm.edu/cas/english/profile/todd-mcgowan
Watch the video version here.
RSam Podcast #47
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