Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings - The Emotional Costs of Everyday Life

Zusatztext Ruti interweaves theoretical insight! cultural critique! feminist politics! and personal experience to lift the lid on the prevalence of bad feelings in contemporary everyday life. Emanating from a playful engagement with Freud's idea of penis envy! Ruti's autotheoretical commentary fans out to a broader consideration of neoliberal pragmatism. Informationen zum Autor Mari Ruti is Distinguished Professor of Critical Theory and of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Toronto. She is the author of many books, including The Summons of Love (2011); The Call of Character: Living a Life Worth Living (2013); and The Ethics of Opting Out: Queer Theory’s Defiant Subjects (2017), all published by Columbia University Press. Klappentext No price on cover Zusammenfassung Mari Ruti combines theoretical reflection, cultural critique, feminist politics, and personal anecdotes to analyze the prevalence of bad feelings in everyday life. Proceeding from a playful engagement with Freud’s idea of penis envy, Ruti fans out to a broader consideration of neoliberal pragmatism and a trenchant critique of gender relations. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. The Creed of Pragmatism 2. The Rationalization of Intimacy 3. The Obsessions of Gender 4. The Reinvention of Heteropatriarchy 5. The Specificity of Desire 6. The Age of Anxiety Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Index

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• Authors: Mari Ruti, Mari (Professor of Critical Theory Ruti, Ruti Mari
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9780231186681
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18668-1
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PSYCHOLOGY / Emotions, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, Psychology: emotions, Feminism & feminist theory, Western philosophy from c 1800, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Gender studies, gender groups, Literary theory, Feminism and feminist theory, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis