Works Like a Charm - Incentive Rhetoric and the Economization of Everyday Life

Breaks the spell of economic thought by interrogating the widespread language and logic of "incentives" in public life from a Lacanian perspective.

About the author

Robert O. McDonald is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Kansas.

Product details

• Authors: Robert O. Mcdonald
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2023
• EAN: 9781438494098
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-9409-8
• No. of pages: 308
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Suny Series, Insinuations: Phi; SUNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric, Communication Studies, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Semantics, discourse analysis, etc, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis