Pure Excess - Capitalism and the Commodity

Todd McGowan forges a new theory of capitalism as a system based on the production of more than what we need: pure excess.

Sommario

Introduction: Excessively Yours
1. The Apotheosis of Uselessness
2. An Objective Excess
3. Two Forms of Fetishism
4. The Indebted Servant
5. The Reasonable Paranoiac
6. Portrait of the Artist as an Anticapitalist
Notes
Index

Info autore

Todd McGowan teaches theory and film at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Embracing Alienation, The Racist Fantasy, Emancipation After Hegel, Capitalism and Desire, and Only a Joke Can Save Us, among other books. He is also the cohost of the Why Theory podcast with Ryan Engley.

Riassunto

Todd McGowan forges a new theory of capitalism as a system based on the production of more than what we need: pure excess.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Todd McGowan, Todd (University of Vermont) Mcgowan, McGowan Todd
• Editore: Columbia University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 20.12.2024
• EAN: 9780231217583
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21758-3
• Pagine: 288
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Altro; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Filosofia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Economics, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Capitalism, Political ideologies and movements, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis, political science; philosophy