Todd McGowan

Capitalism and Desire

The Psychic Cost of Free Markets

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Understanding capitalism as a psychic strategy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 164mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 634g
• ISBN-13: 9780231178723
• ISBN-10: 0231178727
• Artikelnr.: 45001919

Autorenporträt

Todd McGowan is professor of film studies at the University of Vermont. His Columbia University Press books include The Impossible David Lynch (2007), Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution (2019), and Universality and Identity Politics (2020).

Inhaltsangabe

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

Rezensionen

"With Capitalism and Desire, Todd McGowan provides an admirably accessible and intellectually sophisticated analysis of the real connections between capitalism and psychoanalysis. This is a wonderful book demonstrating immense intellectual vitality - it is simply impossible to ignore it." - Fabio Vighi, University of Cardiff