Mourning and Modernity
Essays in the Psychoanalysis of Contemporary Society
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216 pages
- Release Date
17 August 2005
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 |
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| 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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[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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