McGowan Capitalism and Desire

The Psychic Cost of Free Markets
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-231-54221-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

Understanding capitalism as a psychic strategy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McGowan, Todd

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Transzendentalphilosophie, Kritizismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: After Injustice and Repression
1. The Subject of Desire and the Subject of Capitalism
2. The Psychic Constitution of Private Space
3. Shielding Our Eyes from the Gaze
4. The Persistence of Sacrifice After Its Obsolescence
5. A God We Can Believe In
6. A More Tolerable Infinity
7. The Ends of Capitalism
8. Exchanging Love for Romance
9. Abundance and Scarcity
10. The Market's Fetishistic Sublime
Conclusion: Enjoy, Don't Accumulate
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

McGowan Todd:
Todd McGowan (PhD, English, Ohio State) is Associate Professor of English at the University of Vermont. He is the author of a number of books, including Enjoying What We Don’t Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis (Nebraska, 2013), Rupture: On the Emergence of the Political (Northwestern, 2012, 2011), Out of Time: The Ethics of Atemporal Cinema (Minnesota), The Impossible David Lynch (Columbia, 2007), and Capitalism and Desire (Columbia, 2016). I chose him as a reader for his knowledge of the Hegelian tradition and its relation to politics.Todd McGowan is associate professor of film studies at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Enjoying What We Don't Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis (2013) and The Impossible David Lynch (Columbia, 2007), among other books.