Infinite Greed - The Inhuman Selfishness of Capital

Through a novel synthesis of Marxism and psychoanalysis, Adrian Johnston reveals how the relentless pursuit of profits is not fundamentally animated by human acquisitiveness.

List of contents

Preface. Self-Destructive Selfishness: Devouring Its Own Children
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Infrastructural Analysis: Remarrying Marxism and Psychoanalysis
1. The Conflicted Political Animal: The Psychoanalytic Body and the Body Politic
2. From Closed Need to Infinite Greed: Marxian Drives
3. The Self-Cleaning Fetish: Repression Under the Shadow of Fictitious Capital
4. The Triumph of Theological Economics: God Goes Underground
Conclusion. Real Reduction: It’s the Stupid Economy!
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Adrian Johnston is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico and a faculty member of the Emory Psychoanalytic Institute. He is the author of numerous books on German idealism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, science, and politics.

Summary

Through a novel synthesis of Marxism and psychoanalysis, Adrian Johnston reveals how the relentless pursuit of profits is not fundamentally animated by human acquisitiveness.

Product details

• Authors: Adrian Johnston, Johnston Adrian
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.05.2024
• EAN: 9780231214735
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21473-5
• No. of pages: 392
• Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory, Economic theory & philosophy, Economic theory and philosophy, political science; psychology