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Capitalism and the Limits of Desire
By John Roberts
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Description
With ongoing austerity and misery for so many, why does capitalism seem to be so insurmountable, so impossible to move beyond? John Roberts offers a compelling response: it is because we love the love of self that capitalism enables, even though it brings anxiety and self-scrutiny. Capitalism in the form of commodities, and, more importantly, the online platforms through which we express ourselves, has become so much of who we are, of how we define self-love as self-pleasure that it is difficult to imagine ourselves outside of it.
Roberts contends that disentangling ourselves from this collapsing of self into capitalism is possible and that understanding the insidious nature of capitalist thinking even when it comes to our deepest pleasures is the starting point. Using early and late Marx, Lacan's distinction between pleasure and desire and the recent debate on perfectionism (Hurka) as his guides, Roberts lays out a way for individuals to move forward and forge a link between self and desire outside the oppressive demands of platform capitalism.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
264
Release Date:
2021-09-09
Publication Date:
2021-09-09
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
1350214957
ISBN13:
9781350214958
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Weight:
337 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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