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Download or read book Infinite Greed written by Adrian Johnston and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selfishness is essential to capitalism—or so both advocates and opponents claim. In Infinite Greed, Adrian Johnston argues that this consensus is mistaken. Through a novel synthesis of Marxism and psychoanalysis, he reveals how the relentless pursuit of profits is not fundamentally animated by human acquisitiveness. Instead, capitalism’s strange “infinite greed” demands that individuals sacrifice their pleasures, their well-being, and even themselves to serve inhuman capital. Johnston traces the mechanisms that compel capitalist subjects to obey the cold imperative to accumulate in perpetuity and without limits—and also without regard for the consequences for everyone and everything else. Facing crises such as spiraling wealth inequality and the profit-driven prospect of a looming ecological apocalypse, the rational self-interest of the majority would seem to dictate putting a stop to capitalist accumulation. By bringing together the Marxian critique of political economy with psychoanalytic metapsychology, Johnston shows why and how capitalism, rather than being responsive to people’s rationally selfish interests, disregards and overrides them instead. Unlike previous syntheses of Marxism and psychoanalysis, Infinite Greed pairs Freudian and Lacanian concepts with the economic heart of Marx’s historical materialism. In so doing, Johnston brings to light the complex intertwining of political and libidinal economies keeping us invested and complicit in perpetuating capitalism and its ills.
Book Synopsis Christian Economics by : Dale Anthony Pivarunas
Download or read book Christian Economics written by Dale Anthony Pivarunas and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is the Christian mandate to love your neighbor as yourself to be applied in business, economics, and politics? In what way does God want people to act within their jobs, their businesses, and their business transactions; treat tenants, other businesses, subordinates, and their employees; market their products and services and set prices; monitor the quality and safety of their products and services, and so on? Christian Economics promotes justice, fairness, balance, cooperation, and mutual respect within business, economics, and politics, and is based on three principles: good is to be done and promoted and evil is to be avoided; love your neighbor as yourself; and treat each and every human being with absolute dignity. Every business strategy, every business policy, and every business transaction needs to be based on these three principles.
Book Synopsis Psychoanalysis and the Mind-Body Problem by : Jon Mills
Download or read book Psychoanalysis and the Mind-Body Problem written by Jon Mills and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-28 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2022 NAAP Gradiva Award for Best Edited Book In this volume, internationally acclaimed psychoanalysts, philosophers, and scholars of humanities examine the mind-body problem and provide differing analyses on the nature of mind, unconscious structure, mental properties, qualia, and the contours of consciousness. Given that disciplines from the humanities and the social sciences to neuroscience cannot agree upon the nature of consciousness—from what constitutes psychic reality to mental properties, psychoanalysis has a unique perspective that is largely ignored by mainstream paradigms. This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the mind-body problem in various psychoanalytic schools of thought, including philosophical and metapsychological points of view. Psychoanalysis and the Mind-Body Problem will be of interest to psychoanalysts, philosophers, neuroscientists, evolutionary biologists, academics, and those generally interested in the humanities, cognitive science, and the philosophy of mind.
Book Synopsis Psychoanalytic Studies of Creativity, Greed, and Fine Art by : David P Levine
Download or read book Psychoanalytic Studies of Creativity, Greed, and Fine Art written by David P Levine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the history of psychoanalysis, the study of creativity and fine art has been a special concern. Psychoanalytic Studies of Creativity, Greed and Fine Art: Making Contact with the Self makes a distinct contribution to the psychoanalytic study of art by focusing attention on the relationship between creativity and greed. This book also focuses attention on factors in the personality that block creativity, and examines the matter of the self and its ability to be present and exist as the essential element in creativity. Using examples primarily from visual art David Levine explores the subjects of creativity, empathy, interpretation and thinking through a series of case studies of artists, including Robert Irwin, Ad Reinhardt, Susan Burnstine, and Mark Rothko. Psychoanalytic Studies of Creativity, Greed and Fine Art explores the highly ambivalent attitude of artists toward making their presence known, an ambivalence that is evident in their hostility toward interpretation as a way of knowing. This is discussed with special reference to Susan Sontag’s essay on the subject of interpretation. Psychoanalytic Studies of Creativity, Greed and Fine Art contributes to a long tradition of psychoanalytically influenced writing on creativity including the work of Deri, Kohut, Meltzer, Miller and Winnicott among others. It will be of interest to psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic psychotherapists, historians and theorists of art.
Book Synopsis The Democracy of Knowledge by : Daniel Innerarity
Download or read book The Democracy of Knowledge written by Daniel Innerarity and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume in the Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy series extends democracy to knowledge in two ways. First, it argues that the issues science seeks to clarify are relevant for all citizens. Second, it explains that the fundamental problems faced by any democracy, such as the economic crisis, are not so much problems of political will as cognitive failures that must be resolved through both a greater knowledge of the realities over which we govern and a fine-tuning of the tools of governance. In fact, knowledge and related fields are spheres in which not only economic prosperity, but also democratic quality, are determined. Thus politics of knowledge and through knowledge has become a question of democratic citizenship. After introducing the concept of governing knowledge, the book discusses the political action of collective organization of uncertainty, before developing the idea of the cognitive challenge of the economy, revealed by today's economic crisis. A groundbreaking work by a renowned philosopher, it will be an accessible and fundamental resource for anyone interested in the relation of power to knowledge.
Book Synopsis Everyday Greed: Analysis and Appraisal by : Michael S. Pritchard
Download or read book Everyday Greed: Analysis and Appraisal written by Michael S. Pritchard and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-30 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection examines how greed should be understood and appraised. Roundly condemned by virtually all religions, greed receives mixed appraisals in the domains of business and economics. The volume examines these mixed appraisals and how they fare in light of their implications for greed in our everyday world. Greed in children is uniformly criticized by parents, other adults, and even children’s peers. However, in adulthood, greed is commended by some as essential to profit-seeking in business and for offering the greatest promise in promoting economic prosperity for everyone. Those who advocate a more permissive position on greed in the adult world typically concede that some constraints on greed are needed. However, the supporting literature offers little analysis of what greed is (as distinct from, for example, the effort to meet modest needs, or the pursuit of ordinary self-interested ends). It offers little clarification of what sorts of constraints on greed are needed. Nor is careful attention given to difficulties children might have in making a transition without moral loss from regarding greed as inappropriate to its later qualified acceptance. Through a secular approach, this book attempts to make significant inroads in remedying these shortcomings.
Book Synopsis Strangers and Pilgrims on Earth by : Eduardus van der Borght
Download or read book Strangers and Pilgrims on Earth written by Eduardus van der Borght and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-11-25 with total page 937 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former colleagues and students honour Prof. Dr. A. van de Beek with contributions in this Festschrift on themes that have become central in his theology: christology, theology of Israel, eschatology, theology of the church, creation theology, and freedom of religion.
Book Synopsis Cogitations of an Urban Hermit by : Victor Epp
Download or read book Cogitations of an Urban Hermit written by Victor Epp and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It must be said off the author that he is thoroughly ill at ease "in the box," or in any "pigeonhole."
Book Synopsis Ethics Civil & Political by : David Allyn Gorton
Download or read book Ethics Civil & Political written by David Allyn Gorton and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The National Quarterly Review by : Edward Isidore Sears
Download or read book The National Quarterly Review written by Edward Isidore Sears and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ghandhian Aesthetics written by and published by Atlantic Publishers & Distri. This book was released on with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Social Problem by : John Atkinson Hobson
Download or read book The Social Problem written by John Atkinson Hobson and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Of Love and Silence by : Vasile Munteanu
Download or read book Of Love and Silence written by Vasile Munteanu and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a meditation on the idea of Love. There is a long, arduous ideational search that the main character undertakes, which takes him from the depths of the subconscious to the heights of heaven in order to find the true purpose of Love. He is aided in this search by a rather shadowy figure that seems to be someone he has been in love with for a very long time. He will eventually reach the conclusion that Love, when all is said and done, is really Love of the higher Self.
Book Synopsis Mimesis and Sacrifice by : Marcia Pally
Download or read book Mimesis and Sacrifice written by Marcia Pally and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central to identity, personal responsibility, economic systems, theology, and the political and military imaginaries, the practice of sacrifice has inspired, disturbed, and abused. Mimesis and Sacrifice brings together scholars from the humanities, military, business, and social sciences to examine the role that sacrifice plays in different present-day settings, from economics to gender relations. Inspired by Rene Girard's work, chapters explore (i) the extent to which the social character of human living makes us mimetic, (ii) whether mimesis necessarily leads to competitive aggression, (iii) whether aggression must be defused by aggressive sacrificial rituals-and whether all sacrifice has this aim, and (iv) the role of the “second lesson of the cross” (as Girard called it), the lesson of self-giving for others, in addressing present societal problems. By investigating sacrifice across this span of arenas and questions yet within one volume, Mimesis and Sacrifice presents a new appreciation of its influence and consequences in the world today, contributing not only to mimetic theory but to greater understanding of which societal arrangement enable us to live well together and what hobbles that goal.
Book Synopsis Hegel's Idea of Freedom by : Alan Patten
Download or read book Hegel's Idea of Freedom written by Alan Patten and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1999-08-19 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freedom is the value that Hegel most greatly admired and the central organizing concept of his social philosophy. Alan Patten offers the first full-length treatment in English of Hegel's idea of freedom - his theory of what it is to be free and his account of the social and political contexts in which this freedom is developed, realized, and sustained. Patten's investigation illuminates and resolves a number of central questions concerning Hegel's ethics and political theory. Is Hegel's outlook unacceptably conservative? Can freedom be equated with rational self-determination? Is there any special connection between freedom and citizenship? By offering interpretations of Hegels views on these and other questions, Patten develops an original 'civic humanist' reading of Hegel's social philosophy that restores to its proper, central place Hegel's idea of freedom. The book is written in a clear and jargon-free style and will be of interest to anyone concerned with Hegel's ethical, social, and political thought and the sources of contemporary ideas about freedom, community, and the state.
Book Synopsis Dehumanisation of Humanity by : Munayem Mayenin
Download or read book Dehumanisation of Humanity written by Munayem Mayenin and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Petroleum Engineering Handbook: Sustainable Operations by : M.R. Islam
Download or read book The Petroleum Engineering Handbook: Sustainable Operations written by M.R. Islam and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-11-25 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book in the petroleum sector that sheds light on the real obstacles to sustainable development and provides solutions to each problem encountered. Each solution is complete with an economic analysis that clarifies why petroleum operations can continue with even greater profit than before while ensuring that the negative environmental impact is diminished. The new screening tools and models proposed in this book will provide one with proper guidelines to achieve true sustainability in both technology development and management of the petroleum sector.
