Philosophy and Working-through the Past
Regular price
€107.99
14 days return policy
Shipping & Delivery
A01=Jeffrey M. Jackson
Adorno
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Jeffrey M. Jackson
automatic-update
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=HPCF5
Category=QDHR9
contemporary philosophy
continental philosophy
COP=United States
Cosmopolitanism
critical theory
culture industry
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
epistemology mind & body
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
Freud
heidegger
Judith Butler
Language_English
loss
melancholia
mourning
PA=Available
phenomenology
philosophy of history
Price_€50 to €100
PS=Active
psychoanalysis
social and political philosophy
social theory
softlaunch
Product details
- ISBN 9780739182840
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 157 x 239mm
- Publication Date: 16 Dec 2013
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
At certain moments in his political essays, Kant conceives of socio-historical emancipation as a process of working ourselves out of pathological legacies, suggesting that emancipation would involve a process of working through our affective attachments to entrenched, regressive social arrangements. Jackson shows how Freud’s analyses of melancholia, mania and the work of mourning can contribute to an understanding of key dimensions of such pathological social fixations, as well as the possibility of working through the past. This book argues that bringing Freud’s provocative analyses of loss to bear on particular philosophical treatments of history leads to a more coherent, psychoanalytically informed understanding of history. Although Freud does not himself integrate these themes into a theory of socio-political emancipation, his thinking nonetheless can be read as contributing to such a theory. To develop this idea the book draws on thinkers such as Karl Marx, Theodor Adorno, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Axel Honneth, and Judith Butler. The book engages students and scholars of contemporary continental philosophy by arguing for connections between psychoanalysis, philosophy, and critical theory.
Jeffrey M. Jackson is associate professor of philosophy and interim chairperson in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Houston–Downtown.
