Neoliberal Techniques of Social Suffering - Political Resistance and Critical Theory From Latin America and Spain

This volume displays a critical analysis of the political agenda that has, in the last decades, triggered multifaceted forms of precarization and social exclusion of marginalized groups in Latin America and Spain.

List of contents

Introduction: Social Suffering and Political Agency against Neoliberal Disrepair by Laura Quintana and Nuria Sánchez Madrid

Part I: Distorting the Social Contract. The Challenge of Addressing Neoliberal Cultural Politics
Chapter 1: Clash of Narratives: The Neoliberal Systemic Doctrine as Cause of Second-Order Suffering by Alessandro Pinzani
Chapter 2: The Cultural Politics of Neoliberalism: Housing Financialization, Transformations of Work and Institutional Challenges in Today's Spain by Nuria Sánchez Madrid

Part II: Neoliberal Subjectivation and The Effects of Depoliticizing Psychic Suffering
Chapter 3: Economics is the Continuation of Psychology by Other Means: Psychic Suffering and Neoliberalism as a Moral Economy by Vladimir Safatle
Chapter 4: Neoliberalism and Psychic Suffering: The Political Potential of Discontent by Rodrigo Castro Orellana
Chapter 5: Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness: The Perils of Modern Subjectivity in Contemporary Mexico by Zenia Yébenes

Part III: Disclosing the Politi

About the author

Laura Quintana is associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Universidad de Los Andes. Nuria Sánchez Madrid is associate professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University Complutense of Madrid.Nuria Sánchez Madrid is Full Professor at the Complutense University of Madrid, co-coordinator of the Research Group GINEDIS and member of the INSTIFEM UCM. Pablo López Álvarez is Associate Professor of the Department of Philosophy and Society at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM).

Summary

This volume displays a critical analysis of the political agenda that has, in the last decades, triggered multifaceted forms of precarization and social exclusion of marginalized groups in Latin America and Spain.

Product details

• Authors: Laura Sanchez Madrid Quintana
• Assisted by: Nuria Sánchez Madrid (Editor), Laura Quintana (Editor), Nuria Sanchez Madrid (Editor), Nuria Sánchez Madrid (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.08.2023
• EAN: 9781666915075
• ISBN: 978-1-66691-507-5
• No. of pages: 190
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Philosophy, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800, Political science and theory