Mourning and Modernity by Isaac D. Balbus - ISBN: 9781590511558
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In this collection of new and previously published essays, political theorist Isaac Balbus deepens and extends the feminist psychoanalytic account of sexual, political, and technological domination he developed in his earlier works.

Mourning and Modernity

Essays in the Psychoanalysis of Contemporary Society

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    216 pages

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    17 August 2005

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Summary

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 he developed in his earlier works. The first half of Mourning and Modernity responds to Marxist, nonpsychoanalytic, feminist, and post-structuralist criticisms of that psychoanalytic account. The second half applies Kleinian theory to a number of salient topics, including- the issue of reparations…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781590511558
ISBN-10:1590511557
Author:Isaac D. Balbus
Publisher:Other Press LLC
Imprint:Other Press LLC
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:216
Release Date:17 August 2005
Weight:312g
Dimensions:229mm x 152mm x 13mm
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Political TheoryMary Caputi [Mourning and Modernity] is a gift not only to the field of political theory, but to American society at large.

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[Mourning and Modernity] is a gift not only to the field of political theory, but to American society at large.

About The Author

Isaac D. Balbus

Isaac D. BalbusIsaac D. Balbus teaches social and political theory at the University of Illinois at Chicago and is the author of The Dialectics of Legal Repression, Marxism and Domination, and Emotional Rescue- The Theory and Practice of a Feminist Father.

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