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  • The Philosophy of Social Ecology

    Essays on Dialectical Naturalism

    by Murray Bookchin, Todd McGowan ...
    What is nature? What is humanity's place in nature? And what is the relationship of society to the natural world? In an era of ecological breakdown, answering these questions has become of momentous importance for our everyday lives and for the future that we and other life-forms face. In the essays of The Philosophy of Social Ecology, Murray Bookchin confronts these questions head on: invoking ... Read more

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  • Embracing Alienation

    Why We Shouldnt Try to Find Ourselves

    by Todd Mcgowan ...
    The left views alienation as something to be resisted or overcome, but could it actually form the basis of our emancipation?In Embracing Alienation, Todd McGowan offers a completely different take on alienation, claiming that the effort to overcome it is not a radical response to the current state of things but a failure to see the constitutive power of alienation for all of us. Instead of trying ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Fictional Christopher Nolan

    by Todd McGowan ...
    This analysis of the role of fiction in the films of Christopher Nolan is "unassumingly brilliant and surgically incisive" ( Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Society).From Memento and Insomnia to the Batman films, The Prestige, and Inception, lies play a central role in every Christopher Nolan film. Characters in the films constantly find themselves deceived by others and are often caught up in a vast ... Read more

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  • Pure Excess

    Capitalism and the Commodity

    by Todd McGowan ...
    Todd McGowan forges a new theory of capitalism as a system based on the production of more than what we need: pure excess. He argues that the promise of more—more wealth, more enjoyment, more opportunity, without requiring any sacrifice—is the essence of capitalism. Previous socioeconomic systems set up some form of the social good as their focus. Capitalism, however, represents a revolutionary ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Universality and Identity Politics

    by Todd McGowan ...
    The great political ideas and movements of the modern world were founded on a promise of universal emancipation. But in recent decades, much of the Left has grown suspicious of such aspirations. Critics see the invocation of universality as a form of domination or a way of speaking for others, and have come to favor a politics of particularism—often derided as “identity politics.” Others, both ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan

    by Todd McGowan ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    The difficulty of Jacques Lacan's thought is notorious. The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan cuts through this difficulty to provide a clear, jargon-free approach to understanding it. The book describes Lacan's life, the context from which he emerged, and the reception of his theory. Readers will come away with an understanding of concepts such as jouissance, the objet a, and the big Other. ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Capitalism and Desire

    The Psychic Cost of Free Markets

    by Todd McGowan ...
    Despite creating vast inequalities and propping up reactionary world regimes, capitalism has many passionate defenders—but not because of what it withholds from some and gives to others. Capitalism dominates, Todd McGowan argues, because it mimics the structure of our desire while hiding the trauma that the system inflicts upon it. People from all backgrounds enjoy what capitalism provides, but at ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Emancipation After Hegel

    Achieving a Contradictory Revolution

    by Todd McGowan ...
    Hegel is making a comeback. After the decline of the Marxist Hegelianism that dominated the twentieth century, leading thinkers are rediscovering Hegel’s thought as a resource for contemporary politics. What does a notoriously difficult nineteenth-century German philosopher have to offer the present? How should we understand Hegel, and what does understanding Hegel teach us about confronting our ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Out of Time

    Desire in Atemporal Cinema

    by Todd McGowan ...
    In Out of Time, Todd McGowan takes as his starting point the emergence of a temporal aesthetic in cinema that arose in response to the digital era. Linking developments in cinema to current debates within philosophy, McGowan claims that films that change the viewer’s relation to time constitute a new cinematic mode: atemporal cinema.In atemporal cinema, formal distortions of time introduce ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Žižek Responds!

    Edited by Dominik Finkelde, Professor Todd McGowan ...
    Responses to the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek have been, like Žižek himself, extreme. Critics have accused him of charlatanism on the one hand, while others have lauded his genius, especially as a public intellectual, on the other. This makes it difficult to find any kind of nuanced or interesting critical appraisal of his work.At its best Žižek's work provides a new foundation of ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Enjoying What We Don't Have

    The Political Project of Psychoanalysis

    by Todd McGowan ...
    Series series Symploke Studies in Contemporary Theory
    Although there have been many attempts to apply the ideas of psychoanalysis to political thought, this book is the first to identify the political project inherent in the fundamental tenets of psychoanalysis. And this political project, Todd McGowan contends, provides an avenue for emancipatory politics after the failure of Marxism in the twentieth century.Where others seeking the political import ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Racist Fantasy

    Unconscious Roots of Hatred

    by Professor Todd McGowan ...
    Series series Psychoanalytic Horizons
    What stands out about racism is its ability to withstand efforts to legislate or educate it away. In The Racist Fantasy, Todd McGowan argues that its persistence is due to a massive unconscious investment in a fundamental racist fantasy. As long as this fantasy continues to underlie contemporary society, McGowan claims, racism will remain with us, no matter how strenuously we struggle to eliminate ... Read more

    $23.89 USD