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OverviewInnovatively combining existentialist philosophy with cutting edge post-structuralist and psychoanalytic perspectives, this book boldly reconsiders market freedom. Bloom argues that present day capitalism has robbed us of our individual and collective ability to imagine and implement alternative and more progressive economic and social systems; it has deprived us of our radical freedom to choose how we live and what we can become. Since the Great Recession, capitalism has been increasingly blamed for rising inequality and feelings of mass social and political alienation. In place of a deeper liberty, the free market offers subjects the opportunity to continually reinvest their personal and shared hopes within its dogmatic ideology and policies. This embrace helps to temporarily alleviate growing feelings of anxiety and insecurity at the expense of our fundamental human agency. What has become abundantly clear is that the free market is anything but free. Here, Bloom exposes our present day bad faith in the free market and how we can break free from it. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Peter BloomPublisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018 Dimensions: Width: 14.80cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 21.00cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9783030095055ISBN 10: 3030095053 Pages: 191 Publication Date: 12 January 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsChapter 1: The Bad Faith in the Free Market: The Need for Existential Freedom.- Chapter 2: Breaking Free from the Free Market: The Existential Gap of Freedom.- Chapter 3: Capitalism’s Existential Crisis: Producing Existential Freedom.- Chapter 4: The Facticities of Neoliberalism: Demanding Existential Freedom.- Chapter 5: Capitalist Being and Nothingness: Enjoying Existential Freedom.- Chapter 6: Subjected to the Free Market: The Subject of Existential Freedom.- Chapter 7: Deconstructing the Free Market: The Spectre of Existential Freedom.- Chapter 8: Reinvesting in Good Faith: The Radical Promise of Existential Freedom.ReviewsAuthor InformationPeter Bloom is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of People and Organisations at the Open University, UK. His primary research interests include ideology, subjectivity and power, specifically as they relate to broader discourses and everyday practices of capitalism and democracy. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |