Adrian Johnston

Infinite Greed

The Inhuman Selfishness of Capital

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Produktbeschreibung

Through a novel synthesis of Marxism and psychoanalysis, Adrian Johnston reveals how the relentless pursuit of profits is not fundamentally animated by human acquisitiveness.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 598g
• ISBN-13: 9780231214735
• ISBN-10: 0231214731
• Artikelnr.: 70140963

Autorenporträt

Adrian Johnston

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Self-Destructive Selfishness: Devouring Its Own Children
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Infrastructural Analysis: Remarrying Marxism and
Psychoanalysis
1. The Conflicted Political Animal: The Psychoanalytic Body and the Body
Politic
2. From Closed Need to Infinite Greed: Marxian Drives
3. The Self-Cleaning Fetish: Repression Under the Shadow of Fictitious
Capital
4. The Triumph of Theological Economics: God Goes Underground
Conclusion. Real Reduction: It's the Stupid Economy!
Notes
Bibliography
Index