Exhausting Modernity : Grounds for a New Economy

ISBN-13: 9780415237062 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 224 str.

Teresa Brennan

Opis

Teresa Brennan marshalls the insights of Marx and Freud to provide a compelling and insightful analysis of the exhaustion pervading modern capitalism: environmental collapse, the rising poverty levels, and the increase in global economic disparity. Linking the consumption of environmental resources to our own depleted psychic life, she shows that modernity must be rethought if we are to find a sustainable future for both the environment and our own psychic life. This book should prove of value to political and social theorists, philosophers, economists, and anyone interested in the environment.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction; Part 1 Part I Psyche; Chapter 2 The Foundational Fantasy; Chapter 3 Energetics; Chapter 4 Inertia; Part 2 Part II Economy; Chapter 5 The Time/Energy Axis; Chapter 6 Production and Real Value; Chapter 7 The Speed of Acquisition, or How Space Replaces Time; Part 3 Part III Polity; Chapter 8 The State and Exploitation; Chapter 9 Imaginary Time; Chapter 10 Exploitation and Opposition;

O autorze

Teresa Brennan is Schmidt Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Florida Atlantic University.