{"product_id":"psychoanalysis-politics-and-utopia-five-lectures-9781914420405","title":"Psychoanalysis, Politics, and Utopia: Five Lectures","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn impassioned plea for overcoming capitalism, whose urgency is more timely today than when it was first published fifty years ago.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBack in print after fifty years and with a new introduction by Ray Brassier, this often overlooked but prescient collection of Marcuse's lectures makes an impassioned plea for the overthrowing of capitalism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eAnalysing the work of Freud and Marx, and taking in topics like automation, work, postcapitalism, utopia, and technology, \u003ci\u003ePsychoanalysis, Politics, and Utopia \u003c\/i\u003eexcavates the psychic roots of the current crisis of capitalist civilisation, and gives us a blueprint for the emancipation of humanity from the toils of capitalism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a world reeling from the ongoing collapse of the neoliberal consensus, coupled with the accelerating pace of catastrophic climate change wrought by capitalism, Marcuse's radical insights in \u003ci\u003ePsychoanalysis, Politics, and Utopia\u003c\/i\u003e are as urgently relevant today as they were in 1970.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHerbert Marcuse\u003c\/b\u003e (1898-1979) was a philosopher and critical social theorist. He was a member of the Institute for Social Research, along with Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer. His best-known works are \u003ci\u003eReason and Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e (1940); \u003ci\u003eEros and Civilization\u003c\/i\u003e (1955); and \u003ci\u003eOne Dimensional Man\u003c\/i\u003e (1964). His work exerted a profound influence on the New Left and the radical counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Repeater","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50673775673618,"sku":"9781914420405","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_676461aa-549a-4d1d-8788-9cc7c2ea00ad.jpg?v=1733842947","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/psychoanalysis-politics-and-utopia-five-lectures-9781914420405","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}