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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “noelle mcafee”
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  • Feeling Democracy

    Emotional Politics in the New Millennium

    by Sarah Tobias, Arlene Stein, Kathryn Abrams, Nermin Allam, Kirin Gupta, Noëlle McAfee, Ileana Nachescu, Ciara Torres-Spelliscy ...
    Series series The Feminist Bookshelf: Ideas for the 21st Century
    Cultural critic Lauren Berlant wrote that “politics is always emotional,” and her words hold especially true for politics in the twenty-first century. From Obama to Trump, from Black Lives Matter to the anti-abortion movement, politicians and activists appeal to hope, fear, anger, and pity, all amplified by social media.The essays in Feeling Democracy examine how both reactionary and progressive ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Julia Kristeva

    by Noelle McAfee ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Thinkers
    One of the most original thinkers of the twentieth century, Julia Kristeva has been driving forward the fields of literary and cultural studies since the 1960s. This volume is an accessible, introductory guide to the main themes of Kristeva's work, including her ideas on:*semiotics and symbolism*abjection*melancholia*feminism*revolt.McAfee provides clear explanations of the more difficult aspects ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Fear of Breakdown

    Politics and Psychoanalysis

    by Noëlle McAfee ...
    Series Book 65 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    What is behind the upsurge of virulent nationalism and intransigent politics across the globe today? In Fear of Breakdown, Noëlle McAfee uses psychoanalytic theory to explore the subterranean anxieties behind current crises and the ways in which democratic practices can help work through seemingly intractable political conflicts. Working at the intersection of psyche and society, McAfee draws on ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Democracy and the Political Unconscious

    by Noëlle McAfee ...
    Series Book 10 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    Political philosopher Noëlle McAfee proposes a powerful new political theory for our post-9/11 world, in which an old pathology-the repetition compulsion-has manifested itself in a seemingly endless war on terror. McAfee argues that the quintessentially human desire to participate in a world with others is the key to understanding the public sphere and to creating a more democratic society, a ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Transitional Subjects

    Critical Theory and Object Relations

    by Amy Allen, Axel Honneth, Joel Whitebook, C. Fred Alford, Alessandro Ferrera, Owen Hulatt, James Martel, Johanna Meehan, Noëlle McAfee0, Sara Beardsworth1 ...
    Series Book 67 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    Critical social theory has long been marked by a deep, creative, and productive relationship with psychoanalysis. Whereas Freud and Fromm were important cornerstones for the early Frankfurt School, recent thinkers have drawn on the object-relations school of psychoanalysis. Transitional Subjects is the first book-length collection devoted to the engagement of critical theory with the work of ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Fear of Breakdown

    Politics and Psychoanalysis

    by Noëlle McAfee ...
    Series Book 65 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    What is behind the upsurge of virulent nationalism and intransigent politics across the globe today? In Fear of Breakdown, Noëlle McAfee uses psychoanalytic theory to explore the subterranean anxieties behind current crises and the ways in which democratic practices can help work through seemingly intractable political conflicts. Working at the intersection of psyche and society, McAfee draws on ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Transitional Subjects

    Critical Theory and Object Relations

    by Amy Allen, Axel Honneth, Joel Whitebook, C. Fred Alford, Alessandro Ferrera, Owen Hulatt, James Martel, Johanna Meehan, Noëlle McAfee0, Sara Beardsworth1 ...
    Series Book 67 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    Critical social theory has long been marked by a deep, creative, and productive relationship with psychoanalysis. Whereas Freud and Fromm were important cornerstones for the early Frankfurt School, recent thinkers have drawn on the object-relations school of psychoanalysis. Transitional Subjects is the first book-length collection devoted to the engagement of critical theory with the work of ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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  • Requiem for the Ego

    Freud and the Origins of Postmodernism

    by Alfred I. Tauber ...
    Requiem for the Ego recounts Freud's last great attempt to 'save' the autonomy of the ego, which drew philosophical criticism from the most prominent philosophers of the period—Adorno, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein. Despite their divergent orientations, each contested the ego's capacity to represent mental states through word and symbol to an agent surveying its own cognizance. By discarding the ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Death and Mastery

    Psychoanalytic Drive Theory and the Subject of Late Capitalism

    by Benjamin Fong ...
    Series Book 61 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    The first philosophers of the Frankfurt School famously turned to the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud to supplement their Marxist analyses of ideological subjectification. Since the collapse of their proposed "marriage of Marx and Freud," psychology and social theory have grown apart to the impoverishment of both. Returning to this union, Benjamin Y. Fong reconstructs the psychoanalytic ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Alienation

    by Rahel Jaeggi ...
    Translated by Frederick Neuhouser, Alan Smith ...
    Series Book 4 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    The Hegelian-Marxist idea of alienation fell out of favor after the postmetaphysical rejection of humanism and essentialist views of human nature. In this book Rahel Jaeggi draws on the Hegelian philosophical tradition, phenomenological analyses grounded in modern conceptions of agency, and recent work in the analytical tradition to reconceive alienation as the absence of a meaningful relationship ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • What's Our Problem?

    A Self-Help Book for Societies

    by Tim Urban ...
    From the creator of the wildly popular blog Wait But Why, a fun and fascinating deep dive into what the hell is going on in our strange, unprecedented modern times.Between 2013 and 2016, Tim Urban became one of the world’s most popular bloggers, writing dozens of viral, long-form articles about everything from AI to colonizing Mars to procrastination. Then, he turned his attention to a new topic: ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Existentialism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Thomas Flynn ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Existentialism was one of the leading philosophical movements of the twentieth century. Focusing on its seven leading figures, Sartre, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Kierkegaard, de Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty and Camus, this Very Short Introduction provides a clear account of the key themes of the movement which emphasized individuality, free will, and personal responsibility in the modern world. Drawing in ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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