Johnston Infinite Greed

The Inhuman Selfishness of Capital
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-231-56043-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch

Reihe: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Johnston, Adrian

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Adrian Johnston is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico and a faculty member of the Emory Psychoanalytic Institute. He is the author of numerous books on German idealism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, science, and politics.