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On The Pleasure Principle In Culture - Illusions Without Owners (Hardcover, New)
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On The Pleasure Principle In Culture - Illusions Without Owners (Hardcover, New)
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For many illusions it is easy to find owners--people who proudly
declare their belief in things such as life after death, human
reason, or the self-regulation of financial markets. Yet there are
also different kinds of illusions, too, for example, in art: trompe
l'oeil painting pleases its observers with "anonymous
illusions"--illusions where it is not entirely clear who should be
deceived. Anonymous illusions offer a universal pleasure principle
within culture. They are present in games, sports, design,
eroticism, manners, charm, beauty, and so on. However, it seems
that this pleasure principle is increasingly misinterpreted. The
proud proprietors of certain illusions are no longer capable of
recognizing that they also follow anonymous illusions. As a
consequence, they mistake happy, polite others for naive idiots or
"savages"--the possessors of stupid illusions whose happiness is an
obscene intrusion into the lives of more rational creatures. The
misrecognition of anonymous illusions thus becomes a crucial
ideological bedrock for contemporary neoliberal policy. Hatred of
the other's happiness leads to the destruction of the public sphere
and to a state that, rather than fostering and stimulating its
citizens' capacities, interpellates them as victims and limits
itself to providing "protective" or repressive measures directed
against them.
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