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79 produkter
Pure Excess
Capitalism and the Commodity
Av Todd McGowan
Häftad, 2024
247 kr
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Todd McGowan forges a new theory of capitalism as a system based on the production of more than what we need: pure excess. He argues that the promise of more—more wealth, more enjoyment, more opportunity, without requiring any sacrifice—is the essence of capitalism. Previous socioeconomic systems …
Embracing Alienation
Why We Shouldnt Try to Find Ourselves
Av Todd Mcgowan
Häftad, 2024
195 kr
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The left views alienation as something to be resisted or overcome, but could it actually form the basis of our emancipation?We often think of our existential and political projects as attempts to overcome or eradicate alienation: therapists imagine that they help patients to attain self-identity; …
Universality and Identity Politics
Av Todd McGowan
Inbunden, 2020
307 kr
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The great political ideas and movements of the modern world were founded on a promise of universal emancipation. But in recent decades, much of the Left has grown suspicious of such aspirations. Critics see the invocation of universality as a form of domination or a way of speaking for others, and …
The Impossible David Lynch
Av Todd McGowan
Häftad, 2007
316 kr
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Todd McGowan launches a provocative exploration of weirdness and fantasy in David Lynch's groundbreaking oeuvre. He studies Lynch's talent for blending the bizarre and the normal to emphasize the odd nature of normality itself. Hollywood is often criticized for distorting reality and providing …
Emancipation After Hegel
Achieving a Contradictory Revolution
Av Todd McGowan
Häftad, 2021
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
264 kr
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Hegel is making a comeback. After the decline of the Marxist Hegelianism that dominated the twentieth century, leading thinkers are rediscovering Hegel’s thought as a resource for contemporary politics. What does a notoriously difficult nineteenth-century German philosopher have to offer the …
Death and Love
Psychoanalytic and Philosophical Perspectives
Inbunden, 2025
2510 kr
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Death and Love brings together notable psychoanalytic and philosophical theorists to explore the connection between death and love.The book examines how these phenomena shape human existence and relationships, challenging the conventional dichotomy between life-affirming and death-driven …
Self-Sabotage
How We Try Not to Flourish
Av Todd McGowan
Häftad, 2026
151 kr
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Self-Sabotage contends that an unconscious impulse to undermine our own interests plays a dominant role in our lives. The idea of a primary drive to self-destruction is at odds with the prevailing common sense in a world where almost everyone believes that we strive to flourish. Yet often we fail …
Self-Sabotage
How We Try Not to Flourish
Av Todd McGowan
Inbunden, 2026
483 kr
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Self-Sabotage contends that an unconscious impulse to undermine our own interests plays a dominant role in our lives. The idea of a primary drive to self-destruction is at odds with the prevailing common sense in a world where almost everyone believes that we strive to flourish. Yet often we fail …
Death and Love
Psychoanalytic and Philosophical Perspectives
Häftad, 2025
575 kr
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Death and Love brings together notable psychoanalytic and philosophical theorists to explore the connection between death and love.The book examines how these phenomena shape human existence and relationships, challenging the conventional dichotomy between life-affirming and death-driven …
Capitalism and Desire
The Psychic Cost of Free Markets
Av Todd McGowan
Inbunden, 2016
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
1034 kr
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Despite creating vast inequalities and propping up reactionary world regimes, capitalism has many passionate defenders-but not because of what it withholds from some and gives to others. Capitalism dominates, Todd McGowan argues, because it mimics the structure of our desire while hiding the trauma …
The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan
Av Todd McGowan
Häftad, 2025
399 kr
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The difficulty of Jacques Lacan's thought is notorious. The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan cuts through this difficulty to provide a clear, jargon-free approach to understanding it. The book describes Lacan's life, the context from which he emerged, and the reception of his theory. Readers …
Fictional Christopher Nolan
Av Todd McGowan
Häftad, 2012
289 kr
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From Memento and Insomnia to the Batman films, The Prestige, and Inception, lies play a central role in every Christopher Nolan film. Characters in the films constantly find themselves deceived by others and are often caught up in a vast web of deceit that transcends any individual lies. The formal …
Lacan and Contemporary Film
Av Todd Mcgowan, Sheila Kunkle
Häftad, 2004
284 kr
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This unique volume collects a series of essays that link new developments in Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and recent trends in contemporary cinema. Though Lacanian theory has long had a privileged place in the analysis of film, film theory has tended to ignore some of Lacan's most important …
Capitalism and Desire
The Psychic Cost of Free Markets
Av Todd McGowan
Häftad, 2023
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
330 kr
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Despite creating vast inequalities and propping up reactionary world regimes, capitalism has many passionate defenders—but not because of what it withholds from some and gives to others. Capitalism dominates, Todd McGowan argues, because it mimics the structure of our desire while hiding the trauma …
Emancipation After Hegel
Achieving a Contradictory Revolution
Av Todd McGowan
Inbunden, 2019
1034 kr
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Hegel is making a comeback. After the decline of the Marxist Hegelianism that dominated the twentieth century, leading thinkers are rediscovering Hegel’s thought as a resource for contemporary politics. What does a notoriously difficult nineteenth-century German philosopher have to offer the …
Pure Excess
Capitalism and the Commodity
Av Todd McGowan
Inbunden, 2024
991 kr
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Todd McGowan forges a new theory of capitalism as a system based on the production of more than what we need: pure excess. He argues that the promise of more—more wealth, more enjoyment, more opportunity, without requiring any sacrifice—is the essence of capitalism. Previous socioeconomic systems …
Spike Lee
Av Todd McGowan
Häftad, 2014
260 kr
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Since the release of Do the Right Thing in 1989, Spike Lee has established himself as a cinematic icon. Lee's mostly independent films garner popular audiences while at the same time engaging in substantial political and social commentary. He is arguably the most accomplished African American …
Spike Lee
Av Todd McGowan
E-bok, 2014
442 kr
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Since the release of Do the Right Thing in 1989, Spike Lee has established himself as a cinematic icon. Lee''s mostly independent films garner popular audiences while at the same time engaging in substantial political and social commentary. He is arguably the most accomplished African American …
Fictional Christopher Nolan
Av Todd McGowan
Inbunden, 2012
667 kr
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From Memento and Insomnia to the Batman films, The Prestige, and Inception, lies play a central role in every Christopher Nolan film. Characters in the films constantly find themselves deceived by others and are often caught up in a vast web of deceit that transcends any individual lies. The formal …
End of Dissatisfaction?
Jacques Lacan and the Emerging Society of Enjoyment
Av Todd McGowan
Häftad, 2003
450 kr
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Explains why the American cultural obsession with enjoying ourselves actually makes it more difficult to do so.Winner of the 2004 Gary Olson Award for best book in cultural theory presented by JAC Exploring the emergence of a societal imperative to enjoy ourselves, Todd McGowan builds on the work …
Real Gaze
Film Theory after Lacan
Av Todd McGowan
Inbunden, 2007
1365 kr
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Examines the gaze in Lacanian film theory.Winner of the 2008 Gradiva Award, Theoretical Category, presented by the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis The Real Gaze develops a new theory of the cinema by rethinking the concept of the gaze, which has long been central in film …
Real Gaze
Film Theory after Lacan
Av Todd McGowan
Häftad, 2008
657 kr
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Examines the gaze in Lacanian film theory.Winner of the 2008 Gradiva Award, Theoretical Category, presented by the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis The Real Gaze develops a new theory of the cinema by rethinking the concept of the gaze, which has long been central in film …
Enjoying What We Don't Have
The Political Project of Psychoanalysis
Av Todd McGowan
Häftad, 2013
457 kr
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Although there have been many attempts to apply the ideas of psychoanalysis to political thought, this book is the first to identify the political project inherent in the fundamental tenets of psychoanalysis. And this political project, Todd McGowan contends, provides an avenue for emancipatory …
Rupture
On the Emergence of the Political
Av Paul Eisenstein, Todd McGowan
Häftad, 2012
471 kr
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In a radical reconsideration of political theory and politics, Paul Eisenstein and Todd McGowan explore the notion of rupture or radical tearing apart in both history and theory through the sweep of Western philosophy from Plato to Kierkegaard and beyond. The authors use contemporary literature and …
Only a Joke Can Save Us
A Theory of Comedy
Av Todd McGowan
Häftad, 2017
388 kr
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Only a Joke Can Save Us presents an innovative and comprehensive theory of comedy. Using a wealth of examples from high and popular culture and with careful attention to the treatment of humor in philosophy, Todd McGowan locates the universal source of comedy in the interplay of the opposing …
Only a Joke Can Save Us
A Theory of Comedy
Av Todd McGowan
Inbunden, 2017
1137 kr
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Only a Joke Can Save Us presents an innovative and comprehensive theory of comedy. Using a wealth of examples from high and popular culture and with careful attention to the treatment of humor in philosophy, Todd McGowan locates the universal source of comedy in the interplay of the opposing …
Out of Time
Desire in Atemporal Cinema
Av Todd McGowan
Häftad, 2011
323 kr
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In Out of Time, Todd McGowan takes as his starting point the emergence of a temporal aesthetic in cinema that arose in response to the digital era. Linking developments in cinema to current debates within philosophy, McGowan claims that films that change the viewer’s relation to time constitute a …
The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan
Av Todd McGowan
Inbunden, 2025
1422 kr
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The difficulty of Jacques Lacan's thought is notorious. The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan cuts through this difficulty to provide a clear, jargon-free approach to understanding it. The book describes Lacan's life, the context from which he emerged, and the reception of his theory. Readers …
