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Todd McGowan
Todd McGowan forges a new theory of capitalism as a system based on the production of more than what we need: pure excess.
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Todd McGowan (University of Vermont)
Simultaneously an introduction to Hegel and a fundamental reimagining of Hegel’s project, this book presents a radical Hegel for the twenty-first century. Todd McGowan contends that the revolutionary core of…
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Todd Mcgowan
The left views alienation as something to be resisted or overcome, but could it actually form the basis of our emancipation?
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While understanding the psychological structure of pleasure and desire might seem to be unrelated to understanding our current political crisis, Todd McGowan argues that the psychology of enjoyment is critically…
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Since the release of Do the Right Thing in 1989, Spike Lee has established himself as a cinematic icon. Lee’s mostly independent films garner popular audiences while at the same…
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Presents an innovative and comprehensive theory of comedy. Using a wealth of examples from high and popular culture and with careful attention to the treatment of humour in philosophy, Todd…
Attempts to understand recent changes in the canon of American literature through the aid of psychoanalytic theory.
Explores the emergence of a societal imperative to enjoy ourselves, argues that we are in the midst of a large-scale transformation - a shift from a society oriented around prohibition…
Examines the gaze in Lacanian film theory.
In Out of Time, Todd McGowan takes as his starting point the emergence of a temporal aesthetic in cinema that arose in response to the digital era. Linking developments in…
With close readings of Memento, Insomnia, Batman Begins, The Prestige, The Dark Knight, and Inception, this theoretically sophisticated study explores how Christopher Nolan has developed a politically engaged filmmaking that…
Offers an exploration of weirdness and fantasy in David Lynch’s groundbreaking oeuvre. Considering the filmmaker’s entire career, the author examines Lynch’s play with fantasy and traces the political, cultural, and…
Understanding capitalism as a psychic strategy.
Although there have been many attempts to apply the ideas of psychoanalysis to political thought, this book is the first to identify the political project inherent in the fundamental tenets…
This book develops a new conception of universality that helps us rethink political thought and action. Through a wide range of examples in contemporary politics, film, and history, Universality and…
Paul Eisenstein,Todd McGowan
In a radical reconsideration of political theory and politics, Paul Eisenstein and Todd McGowan explore the notion of rupture or radical tearing apart in both history and theory through the…
This volume considers formalisations of love in the 21st century. Engaging with the Slovenian School of Philosophy, the book contends that psychoanalysis is the one line of thought that exposes…
This volume collects a series of essays that link new developments in Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and recent trends in contemporary cinema. These essays bring this rediscovered Lacan to bear on…
Professor Todd McGowan (Professor, University of Vermont, USA)
Psychoanalytic Film Theory and The Rules of the Game offers a concise introduction to psychoanalytic film theory in jargon-free language and shows how this theory can be deployed to interpret…
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The Racist Fantasy lays out the fundamental fantasy structure that underlies a racist psyche as it develops in capitalist modernity –
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Responses to the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek have been, like Zizek himself, extreme. Critics have accused him of charlatanism on the one hand, while others have lauded his genius, especially…
Davis Hankins
Revised version of the author’s dissertation–Emory University, 2011.
Responding to the ongoing objectal turn throughout contemporary humanities and social sciences, the eleven essays in Subject Lessons present a sustained case for the continued importance-indeed, the indispensability-of the category…
Responding to the ongoing objectal turn throughout contemporary humanities and social sciences, the eleven essays in Subject Lessons present a sustained case for the continued importance - indeed, the indispensability…
