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Enjoyment Right & Left Paperback – October 31, 2022

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While understanding the psychic structure of pleasure and desire might seem to be unrelated to grasping our current political crisis, Todd McGowan argues that the intrinsically excessive nature of enjoyment is critically important to this effort. In a world that appears completely divided between right and left, McGowan calls for a universal form of enjoyment that unites people in an egalitarian project. Todd McGowan's previous books include Emancipation After Hegel, Capitalism and Desire, and The Impossible David Lynch, among others. He teaches theory and film at the University of Vermont.

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"McGowan's game-changing book compellingly answers one of the most vexing questions of our time: why do our best-intentioned leftist political projects continually fail? Against the contemporary progressive zeitgeist of championing the particular over the universal and insisting on inclusivity over nonbelonging, McGowan shows that emancipatory politics requires that we commit ourselves to accept our universal nonbelonging. Through his characteristically novel analyses of wide-ranging cultural and political phenomena―including the Black Lives Matter movement, sports fandom, the Christmas movie genre, the Haitian Revolution, and falling in love―McGowan obliges us to recognize that a truly egalitarian society is not possible without radical enjoyment." --Jennifer Friedlander, author of Real Deceptions

"Forget political 'opinions,' to say nothing of 'considered' opinions. In what deserves to be a game-changer, Todd McGowan convincingly shows how political postures are founded on forms of 'enjoyment,' unconscious gratifications paradoxically closer to suffering than to pleasure, closer to sacrifice than to satisfaction. A real adventure of insight." --Richard Boothby, author of Embracing the Void: Rethinking the Origin of the Sacred

"McGowan's readability…is traceable to his ability to relate abstruse ideas to aspects of everyday life and common experiences. His style of writing when offering explanations for difficult terms and ideas results in an admirable lucidity." --Sean Sheehan, reviewing Emancipation After Hegel in Marx and Philosophy

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Through his characteristically novel analyses of wide-ranging cultural and political phenomena, McGowan obliges us to recognize that a truly egalitarian society is not possible without radical enjoyment. - Jennifer Friedlander, author of Real Deceptions

Todd McGowan convincingly shows how political postures are founded on forms of "enjoyment," unconscious gratifications paradoxically closer to suffering than to pleasure, closer to sacrifice than to satisfaction. - Richard Boothby, author of Embracing the Void: Rethinking the Origin of the Sacred

McGowan's readability...his style of writing when offering explanations for difficult terms and ideas results in an admirable lucidity. - Sean Sheehan, reviewing Emancipation After Hegel in Marx and Philosophy

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0BDHX2QKG
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Itasca Books
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 31, 2022
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8986788401
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.1 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.4 x 8 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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