Embracing Alienation
why we shouldnt try to find ourselves
$36.84
- Paperback
206 pages
- Release Date
13 May 2024
Summary
Embracing Alienation: A Revolutionary Perspective
The left typically views alienation as something to be resisted or overcome. But what if it could actually form the basis of our emancipation?
In Embracing Alienation, Todd McGowan offers a completely different take, claiming that the effort to overcome it is not a radical response but a failure to see its constitutive power. Instead of trying to accede to an unalienated existence, we should redeem alienation as an e…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781915672223 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1915672228 |
| Author: | Todd Mcgowan |
| Publisher: | Watkins Media Limited |
| Imprint: | Repeater Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 206 |
| Release Date: | 13 May 2024 |
| Weight: | 190g |
| Dimensions: | 21mm x 196mm x 132mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
“A seminal text that masterfully remakes our understanding of the emancipatory potential of alienated subjectivity… In vivid prose and lucid explications, McGowan incisively displays the impediments to true egalitarianism presented by any group identity and defines, instead, alienation as the driving force for liberatory practices.”- Sheldon George, Professor and Chair of Literature & Writing, Simmons University
About The Author
Todd Mcgowan
Todd McGowan teaches theory and film at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Enjoyment Right and Left, The Racist Fantasy, Universality and Identity Politics, Emancipation After Hegel, Only a Joke Can Save Us, and Capitalism and Desire, among other works. He is the cohost of the Why Theory podcast and coeditor of the Diaeresis series at Northwestern University Press with Slavoj Zizek and Adrian Johnston.
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