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"We live amid countless claims for the importance of identity and an almost equal number of critiques of identity politics. Identity has become the privileged terrain for political struggle in contemporary society. For many on the Left, the turn from class politics to identity politics is something to lament. They argue for a return to a political critique of capitalist economics, which should have a position of primacy, they contend, relative to questions of identity. For conservatives, in contrast, identity politics marks a further radicalization of the Left, a triumph of what they erroneously call Cultural Marxism. Todd McGowan intervenes in these debates by offering as an alternative a new theory of universality that avoids the totalizing vision of previous homogenizing Eurocentric varieties. For McGowan, what unites us is not an ethics or a politics with which we all must agree but instead what we lack as political subjects who under conditions of capitalism cannot fully be who we are. This lack is the foundation of every emancipatory political project. In repositioning the debate between universality and identity in a new register, he shows that the real proponents of identity politics are the right-wing nationalist, ethnic, and religious fundamentalists who unite against their perceived enemies"--

Hegel is making a comeback. After the decline of the Marxist Hegelianism that dominated the twentieth century, leading thinkers are rediscovering Hegel's thought as a resource for contemporary politics. What does a notoriously difficult nineteenth-century German philosopher have to offer the present? How should we understand Hegel, and what does understanding Hegel teach us about confronting our most urgent challenges?In this book, Todd McGowan offers us a Hegel for the twenty-first century. Simultaneously an introduction to Hegel and a fundamental reimagining of Hegel's project, Emancipation After Hegel presents a radical Hegel who speaks to a world overwhelmed by right-wing populism, authoritarianism, neoliberalism, and economic inequalities. McGowan argues that the revolutionary core of Hegel's thought is contradiction. He reveals that contradiction is inexorable and that we must attempt to sustain it rather than overcoming it or dismissing it as a logical failure. McGowan contends that Hegel's notion of contradiction, when applied to contemporary problems, challenges any assertion of unitary identity as every identity is in tension with itself and dependent on others. An accessible and compelling reinterpretation of an often-misunderstood thinker, this book shows us a way forward to a new politics of emancipation as we reconcile ourselves to the inevitability of contradiction and find solidarity in not belonging

Despite creating vast inequalities and propping up reactionary world regimes, capitalism has many passionate defenders-but not because of what it withholds from some and gives to others. Capitalism dominates, Todd McGowan argues, because it mimics the structure of our desire while hiding the trauma that the system inflicts upon it. People from all backgrounds enjoy what capitalism provides, but at the same time are told more and better is yet to come. Capitalism traps us through an incomplete satisfaction that compels us after the new, the better, and the more. Capitalism's parasitic relationship to our desires gives it the illusion of corresponding to our natural impulses, which is how capitalism's defenders characterize it. By understanding this psychic strategy, McGowan hopes to divest us of our addiction to capitalist enrichment and help us rediscover enjoyment as we actually experienced it. By locating it in the present, McGowan frees us from our attachment to a better future and the belief that capitalism is an essential outgrowth of human nature. From this perspective, our economic, social, and political worlds open up to real political change. Eloquent and enlivened by examples from film, television, consumer culture, and everyday life, Capitalism and Desire brings a new, psychoanalytically grounded approach to political and social theory

The political problem that we suffer from is not our adherence to ideological fantasies that promise us an enjoyment that is false or unattainable. The political struggle does not involve an effort to escape the pull that fantasy has over us so that we can look at the situation as it really is. Although fantasy is a political trap, it is also the key to emancipation. But in order for fantasy to be emancipatory, we must approach it in the manner of film noir, which allows fantasy to infiltrate every aspect of the filmic world that it depicts. When we take this step, the ideological valence of fantasy undergoes a complete revolution.

Zasady filozofii prawa Hegla otwarcie głoszą, że są dziełem bez programu politycznego – interpretacją polityki, a nie projektem politycznym. W niniejszym tekście twierdzi się, że decyzja Hegla, by ogólność państwa ustanowić punktem kulminacyjnym struktury politycznej, sama w sobie stanowi interwencję polityczną, która dokonuje się już w akcie interpretacji. Heglowska analiza relacji między kapitalizmem (lub społeczeństwem obywatelskim) a państwem ujawnia, że na społeczeństwo kapitalistyczne musimy spoglądać z perspektywy państwa. W ten sposób możemy rozpoznać polityczną konieczność przejścia od kapitalistycznego partykularyzmu do uniwersalności formy państwowej.

If Samo Tomšič's first book, The Capitalist Unconscious, depicts the marriage of Marx and Freud, his follow-up, The Labour of Enjoyment, enacts the consummation of that marriage. As such, the book provides a heretofore untraveled path through the political possibilities present in psychoanalysis that neither Freud nor Lacan nor any of their epigones ever developed to their fullest extent. Although many psychoanalytic theorists marshal psychoanalysis to aid in the critique of capitalism, few view it as providing itself an absolute alternative. The key virtue of Tomšič's book is that it does so. Tomšič unapologetically sees Freud as a political thinker on a par with, if not surpassing, Marx.

Intro -- Also by Murray Bookchin -- Dedication -- Preface to the Third Edition -- Introduction: A Philosophical Naturalism -- Toward a Philosophy of Nature: The Bases for an Ecological Ethics -- Freedom and Necessity in Nature: A Problem in Ecological Ethics -- Thinking Ecologically: A Dialectical Approach -- History, Civilization, and Progress: Outline for a Criticism of Modern Relativism -- Afterword: Todd McGowan -- Index -- Murray Bookchin -- Copyright

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Theory of Rupture -- Chapter One. Belief -- Chapter Two. Universality -- Chapter Three. Solidarity -- Chapter Four. Equality -- Chapter Five. Freedom -- Chapter Six. Singularity -- Chapter Seven. The Inhuman -- Conclusion. Theorizing from the Rubble -- Notes -- Index

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Subject Matters-Russell Sbriglia and Slavoj Žižek -- Part 1. Hegel and Philosophical Materialism -- 1. What's the Matter? On Matter and Related Matters-Mladen Dolar -- 2. Subjectivity in Times of (New) Materialisms: Hegel and Conceptualization-Borna Radnik -- 3. Objects after Subjects: Hegel's Broken Ontology-Todd McGowan -- 4. The Nature of Dialectical Materialism in Hegel and Marx-Andrew Cole -- 5. Intellectual Intuition and Intellectus Archetypus: Reflexivity from Kant to Hegel-Slavoj Žižek -- Part 2. Lacan and Psychoanalytic Materialism -- 6. Fear of Science: Transcendental Materialism and Its Discontents-Adrian Johnston -- 7. Ontology and the Death Drive: Lacan and Deleuze-Alenka Zupancic -- 8. Why Sex Is Special: Psychoanalysis against New Materialism-Nathan Gorelick -- 9. Twisting "Flat Ontology": Harman's "Allure" and Lacan's Extimate Cause-Molly Anne Rothenberg -- 10. Becoming and the Challenge of Ontological Incompleteness:Virginia Woolf avec Lacan contra Deleuze-Kathryn Van Wert -- 11. From Sublimity to Sublimation: Hegel, Lacan, Melville-Russell Sbriglia -- Contributors -- Index.