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  • The Creative Self

    Beyond Individualism

    de Mari Ruti, Gail M. Newman ...
    Winner, 2025 Choice Outstanding Academic Title“Be the best you can be!” Practically from the moment we are born, we are taught to optimize our lives—to devote ourselves to increasing our productivity and efficiency, which, we are told, will make us happier and more successful. The imperative of constant self-improvement, however, drains us dry even as it promises to build us up.The Creative Self ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings

    The Emotional Costs of Everyday Life

    de Mari Ruti ...
    Mari Ruti combines theoretical reflection, cultural critique, feminist politics, and personal experience to analyze the prevalence of bad feelings in contemporary everyday life. Proceeding from a playful engagement with Freud’s idea of penis envy, Ruti’s autotheoretical commentary fans out to a broader consideration of neoliberal pragmatism. She focuses on the emphasis on good performance, high ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • The Call of Character

    Living a Life Worth Living

    de Mari Ruti ...
    Should we feel inadequate when we fail to be healthy, balanced, and well-adjusted? Is it realistic or even desirable to strive for such an existential equilibrium? Condemning our current cultural obsession with cheerfulness and "positive thinking," Mari Ruti calls for a resurrection of character that honors our more eccentric frequencies and argues that sometimes a tormented and anxiety-ridden ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Case for Falling in Love

    Why We Can't Master the Madness of Love -- and Why That's the Best Part

    de Mari Ruti Ph.D. ...
    Praise for The Case for Falling in Love"Why play 'hard to get' when you can just get what you want? Mari Ruti's lively research, from Plato to Freud to Gossip Girl to her own bedroom, finally puts an end to playing games, and provides a resource for lovers and the love-scorned alike. A must-read for anyone who has ever fallen in love, wants to, or wants to know what went wrong."—Arianne Cohen, ... Leer más

    $15.89 USD

  • Distillations

    Theory, Ethics, Affect

    de Professor Mari Ruti ...
    Distilling into concise and focused formulations many of the main ideas that Mari Ruti has sought to articulate throughout her writing career, this book reflects on the general state of contemporary theory as it relates to posthumanist ethics, political resistance, subjectivity, agency, desire, and bad feelings such as anxiety. It offers a critique of progressive theory's tendency to advance ... Leer más

    $33.19 USD

  • Reinventing the Soul

    Posthumanist Theory and Psychic Life

    de Mari Ruti ...
    Essential reading for scholars and students in critical theory, psychoanalysis, and gender studies.How does the self care for itself in the posthumanist era? What psychic processes might allow the postmodern subject to find meaning and value in its life? Is it possible to delineate a theory of psychic potentiality that is compatible with poststructuralist models of fluid, decentered, and ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • The Summons of Love

    de Mari Ruti ...
    We are conditioned to think that love heals wounds, makes us happy, and gives our lives meaning. When the opposite occurs and love causes fracturing, disenchantment, and existential turmoil, we suffer deeply, especially if we feel that love has failed us or that we have failed to experience what others seem so effortlessly to enjoy.In this eloquently argued, psychologically informed book, Mari ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Ethics of Immediacy

    Dangerous Experience in Freud, Woolf, and Merleau-Ponty

    de Dr. Jeffrey McCurry, Professor Esther Rashkin, Professor Peter L. Rudnytsky, Professor Mari Ruti ...
    Series series Psychoanalytic Horizons
    Drawing connections between Freudian psychoanalysis, Virginia Woolf's criticism and fiction, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology, The Ethics of Immediacy recounts the far-reaching consequences of the modern turn towards a new ethics of immediacy.During the first half of the 20th century, a profound transformation – an existential revolution – took place in European culture in how human ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • Benghazi

    de Salah el Moncef, Mari Ruti ...
    Benghazi is an odyssey into the mental universe of Mariam Khaldoon, a Libyan teenager confronted with a life-changing emotional crisis. The story is centered around the power exerted over Mariam by two powerful men: her father, and the Fascist Italian leader Benito Mussolini. Between the omnipotent family patriarch who makes an unjust decision that throws her existence into turmoil, and the ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • Visual Culture in Freud's Vienna

    Science, Eros, and the Psychoanalytic Imagination

    de Professor Emerita Mary Bergstein, Professor Mari Ruti, Professor Esther Rashkin, Professor Peter L. Rudnytsky ...
    Series series Psychoanalytic Horizons
    Visual Culture in Freud's Vienna shows how photography and film in turn-of-the-century Vienna (the birthplace of psychoanalysis) not only reflected modernist ideas already in force, but helped to bring into being what might be referred to as a “psychoanalytic imagination.”Mary Bergstein demonstrates that visual images not only illustrated, but also engendered ways of seeing social, psychological, ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • The Age of Scientific Sexism

    How Evolutionary Psychology Promotes Gender Profiling and Fans the Battle of the Sexes

    de Professor Mari Ruti ...
    We trust our sciences to operate on a plane of objectivity and fact in a world of subjectivity and cultural ideologies, but should we? In The Age of Scientific Sexism, philosopher Mari Ruti offers a sharp critique of the gender profiling tendencies of evolutionary psychology, untangling the insidious threads of various gender mythologies that have infiltrated-or perhaps even define-this faux ... Leer más

    $33.19 USD

  • Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings

    The Emotional Costs of Everyday Life

    de Mari Ruti ...
    Mari Ruti combines theoretical reflection, cultural critique, feminist politics, and personal experience to analyze the prevalence of bad feelings in contemporary everyday life. Proceeding from a playful engagement with Freud’s idea of penis envy, Ruti’s autotheoretical commentary fans out to a broader consideration of neoliberal pragmatism. She focuses on the emphasis on good performance, high ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD