On The Pleasure Principle In Culture
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On The Pleasure Principle In Culture
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Author : Robert Pfaller
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2014-07-15
On The Pleasure Principle In Culture written by Robert Pfaller and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-15 with Philosophy categories.
In this fascinating work of cultural theory and philosophy, Robert Pfaller explores the hidden cost of our contemporary approach to pleasure, belief and illusion. Sports, design, eroticism, social intercourse and games-indeed, all those aspects of our culture commonly deemed "pleasurable"-seem to require beliefs that many regard as illusory. But in considering themselves above the self-deceptions of the crowd, those same sceptics are prone to dismissing a majority of the population as naive or misguided. In doing so, they create a false opposition between the 'simple' masses and their more enlightened rulers. And this dichotomy then functions as an ideological support for neoliberal government: citizens become irrational victims, to be ruled over by a protective security state. What initially appears to be a universal pleasure principle-the role of "anonymous illusions" in mass culture-in this way becomes a rationale for dismantling democracy.
The Pleasure Principle
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Author : Michael Bronski
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2000-02-23
The Pleasure Principle written by Michael Bronski and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-02-23 with Social Science categories.
A brilliant and thought-provoking examination of the complicated relationship between gay and mainstream culture--and a finalist for the 1998 Lambda Literary Award and the Randy Shilts Award.
The Pursuit Of Pleasure
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Author : Arsen Dallan
language : en
Publisher: Ibidem Press
Release Date : 2016
The Pursuit Of Pleasure written by Arsen Dallan and has been published by Ibidem Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Psychology categories.
This important book unveils how the pleasure principle has taken humanity hostage to the powers of branding and consumerism, steering our most basic desires. Radically re-evaluating the notion of pleasure and arguing for a deep societal change, it shows the way to a new humanist culture.
On The Pleasure Principle In Culture
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Author : Robert Pfaller
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2014-07-15
On The Pleasure Principle In Culture written by Robert Pfaller and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-15 with Philosophy categories.
For many illusions it is easy to find owners—people who proudly declare their belief in things such as life after death, human reason, or the self-regulation of financial markets. Yet there are also different kinds of illusions, too, for example, in art: trompe l'oeil painting pleases its observers with "anonymous illusions"—illusions where it is not entirely clear who should be deceived. Anonymous illusions offer a universal pleasure principle within culture. They are present in games, sports, design, eroticism, manners, charm, beauty, and so on. However, it seems that this pleasure principle is increasingly misinterpreted. The proud proprietors of certain illusions are no longer capable of recognizing that they also follow anonymous illusions. As a consequence, they mistake happy, polite others for naïve idiots or "savages"—the possessors of stupid illusions whose happiness is an obscene intrusion into the lives of more rational creatures. The misrecognition of anonymous illusions thus becomes a crucial ideological bedrock for contemporary neoliberal policy. Hatred of the other's happiness leads to the destruction of the public sphere and to a state that, rather than fostering and stimulating its citizens' capacities, interpellates them as victims and limits itself to providing "protective" or repressive measures directed against them.
The Pleasure Principle
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Author : Michael Bronski
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998-07
The Pleasure Principle written by Michael Bronski and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-07 with categories.
In this compelling book, journalist Michael Bronski explores the often unacknowledged but undeniable impact that gay sensibility has had in breaking down traditional and repressive structures in society.
Beyond The Pleasure Principle
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Author : Sigmund Freud
language : en
Publisher: Broadview Press
Release Date : 2011-03-02
Beyond The Pleasure Principle written by Sigmund Freud and has been published by Broadview Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-02 with Psychology categories.
Beyond the Pleasure Principle is Freud’s most philosophical and speculative work, exploring profound questions of life and death, pleasure and pain. In it Freud introduces the fundamental concepts of the “repetition compulsion” and the “death drive,” according to which a perverse, repetitive, self-destructive impulse opposes and even trumps the creative drive, or Eros. The work is one of Freud’s most intensely debated, and raises important questions that have been discussed by philosophers and psychoanalysts since its first publication in 1920. The text is presented here in a contemporary new translation by Gregory C. Richter. Appendices trace the work’s antecedents and the many responses to it, including texts by Plato, Friedrich Nietzsche, Melanie Klein, Herbert Marcuse, Jacques Derrida, and Judith Butler, among many others.
The Pleasure Principle Epicureanism A Philosophy For Modern Living
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Author : Catherine Wilson
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2019-05-02
The Pleasure Principle Epicureanism A Philosophy For Modern Living written by Catherine Wilson and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-02 with Philosophy categories.
In our troubled world, looking back to ancient wisdom can shed light on fresh solutions.
Pleasure Principle
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Author : Chris Steele-Perkins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Pleasure Principle written by Chris Steele-Perkins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Photography categories.
England is a strange place-- funny, complex and sad. Distance yourself from it, experience other cultures-- then look again. That strangeness becomes almost overwhelming. This is a powerful and perceptive view of England in the eighties. Using ideas of 'pleasure, ' Chis Steele-Perkins explores a public, ritual face that cuts across class and location. What we see is not only familiar it is also frequently disturbing. Chris Steele-Perkins is a "Magnum photographer whose work has been seen in most major publications in the world. In 1988 he won both the World Press Photo Oskar Barnack Award and the Tom Hopkinson Award for Photojournalism; in 1989 he won the Robert Capa Gold Medal. He has published a number of books including "The Teds (1979, Travelling Light) and "Beirut Frontline Story (1982, Pluto Press).
Death Desire And Loss In Western Culture
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Author : Jonathan Dollimore
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-07-04
Death Desire And Loss In Western Culture written by Jonathan Dollimore and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture is a rich testament to our ubiquitous preoccupation with the tangled web of death and desire. In these pages we find nuanced analysis that blends Plato with Shelley, Hölderlin with Foucault. Dollimore, a gifted thinker, is not content to summarize these texts from afar; instead, he weaves a thread through each to tell the magnificent story of the making of the modern individual.
The Borderline Culture
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Author : Željka Matijaševic
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2021-04-28
The Borderline Culture written by Željka Matijaševic and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-28 with Psychology categories.
In The Borderline Culture: Intensity, Jouissance, and Death, Željka Matijašević argues that the psychological descriptor, “borderline,” should be extended to encompass the main facets of contemporary Western culture: splitting, affective dysregulation, intensity, and the polarization of good and bad objects.