{"product_id":"psychoanalysis-politics-and-utopia-isbn-9781914420405","title":"Psychoanalysis, Politics, and Utopia","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn impassioned plea for overcoming capitalism, whose urgency is more timely today than when it was first published fifty years ago.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBack in print after fifty years and with a new introduction by Ray Brassier, this often overlooked but prescient collection of Marcuse's lectures makes an impassioned plea for the overthrowing of capitalism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eAnalysing the work of Freud and Marx, and taking in topics like automation, work, postcapitalism, utopia, and technology, \u003ci\u003ePsychoanalysis, Politics, and Utopia \u003c\/i\u003eexcavates the psychic roots of the current crisis of capitalist civilisation, and gives us a blueprint for the emancipation of humanity from the toils of capitalism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a world reeling from the ongoing collapse of the neoliberal consensus, coupled with the accelerating pace of catastrophic climate change wrought by capitalism, Marcuse’s radical insights in \u003ci\u003ePsychoanalysis, Politics, and Utopia\u003c\/i\u003e are as urgently relevant today as they were in 1970. “Against the lies and mystifications of a cynical ‘realism,’ Marcuse insists on the real basis of utopia — an insistence we need today more than ever.” - \u003cb\u003eJodi Dean\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eComrade: An Essay on Political Belonging\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Communist Horizon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Marcuse also shows a path to a concrete utopia made possible by the achievements of the existing society. The essays in his volume are once again timely as rising social conflict on the right and the left challenges conventional thinking.” - \u003cb\u003eProfessor Andrew Feenberg\u003c\/b\u003e, Simon Fraser University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“These texts indicate how and why Marcuse was a key influence on the New Left and radical politics during the last two decades of his life in the 1960s and 1970s, and his continuing relevance for radical theory and politics today.” - \u003cb\u003eDouglas Kellner\u003c\/b\u003e, UCLA\u003cb\u003eHerbert Marcuse\u003c\/b\u003e (1898-1979) was a philosopher and critical social theorist. He was a member of the Institute for Social Research, along with Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer. His best-known works are \u003ci\u003eReason and Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e (1940); \u003ci\u003eEros and Civilization\u003c\/i\u003e (1955); and \u003ci\u003eOne Dimensional Man\u003c\/i\u003e (1964). His work exerted a profound influence on the New Left and the radical counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s. ","brand":"Repeater","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304191611109,"sku":"NP9781914420405","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781914420405.jpg?v=1767735195","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/psychoanalysis-politics-and-utopia-isbn-9781914420405","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}