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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Jodi DeanPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.20cm Weight: 0.363kg ISBN: 9780822345053ISBN 10: 0822345056 Pages: 232 Publication Date: 02 September 2009 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Post-Politics and Left Victory 1 1. Technology: The Promises of Communicative Capitalism 19 2. Free Trade: The Neoliberal Fantasy 49 3. Democracy: A Knot of Hope and Despair 75 4. Resolve: Speaking of Evil 95 5. Ethics: Left Responsiveness and Retreat 123 6. Certainty: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories and Psychosis 145 Notes 177 Bibliography 195 Index 203ReviewsJodi Dean's new book provides what we have all been waiting for: the authentic theoretical analysis of how ideology functions in today's global capitalism. Her diagnosis of 'communicative capitalism' discloses how our 'really-existing democracies' curtail prospects of radical emancipatory politics. Dean demonstrates this status of democracy as a political fantasy not through cheap pseudo-Marxist denunciations, but through a detailed examination of social, symbolic, and libidinal mechanisms and practices. To anyone who continues to dwell in illusions about liberal democracy, one should simply say: 'Hey, didn't you read Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies?' Slavoj Zizek, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Jodi Dean provides an incredibly lucid explanation of what neoliberalism has been in terms of both policy and collective fantasies regarding the relation of markets to freedom. But the really threatening Big Other in this book is not neoliberal ideology, but the failed and flawed leftist will that concedes too much power and unity to neoliberalism. This is a frank polemic that will stimulate many arguments about the past and future of critical theory and democratic politics in the United States. --Lauren Berlant, author of The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship Author InformationJodi Dean is Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and Erasmus Professor of the Humanities in the Faculty of Philosophy at Erasmus University in Rotterdam. She is the author of Žižek’s Politics, Publicity’s Secret: How Technoculture Capitalizes on Democracy, and Aliens in America: Conspiracy Cultures from Outerspace to Cyberspace. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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