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Mourning and Modernity (Paperback, New) Loot Price: R710
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Mourning and Modernity (Paperback, New): Isaac D. Balbus

Mourning and Modernity (Paperback, New)

Isaac D. Balbus

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IN THIS COLLECTION OF NEW AND PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED essays, political theorist Isaac D. Balbus deepens and extends the feminist neo-Kleinian account of sexual, political, and technological domination the developed in his earlier works. The first half of Mourning and Modernity responds to Marxist, nonpsychoanalytic, feminist, and post-structuralist enticisms of the psychoanalytic account The Second half applies klenian theory to a number of salient topics, including the issue of reparations for slavery and racism, the fantasies of omnipotence fostered by computer-mediated communication, ant the way in which deep ecology and 12-step recovery programs contest omnipotence in the realms of production and consumption. Balbus conceptualizes modernity as a manic cultural defense against mourning the very losses it mandates and as a source of reparative movements of mourning that challenge its contemporary configuration. This argument allows Balbus to transcend the tired debate between those scholars for whom modernity is an unambiguous emancipation and those for whom modernity is entirely bereft of emancipatory possibilities "Mourning and Modernity thus renews the tradition of critical cultural psychoanalysis that includes the works of Erich From, Herbert Marcuse, Norman O. Brown, Christopher Lasch, and Dorothy Dinnerstein, and will be particularly provocative to readers who are familiar with that tradition as well as anyone who is interested in the intersection of psychoanalysis and social or political theory.

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Imprint: Other Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: August 2005
First published: August 2005
Authors: Isaac D. Balbus
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 216
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-1-59051-155-8
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > General
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LSN: 1-59051-155-7
Barcode: 9781590511558

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