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Political Freud
Marx After Marx
A History
History and Time in the Expansion of Capitalism
Eli Zaretsky “Zaretsky offers a fascinating analysis of the inherent political ambivalence of psychoanalysis, its intertwined conservative and utopian strands. Political Freud is a deeply interesting and important contribution to debates about the relationship between psychoanalysis, critical theory and politics.” —Amy R. Allen, Dartmouth College Political Freud is Zaretsky’s account of the way twentieth century radicals, activists, and thinkers used Freudian thought to understand the political developments of their century. Zaretsky shows how important political readings of Freud were to the theory of fascism and the experience of the Holocaust, the critical role they played in African American radical thought, particularly in the struggle for racial memory, and in the rebellions of the 1960s and their culmination in feminism and gay liberation. $35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-17244-8 2015 248 pages
Harry Harootunian “Harry Harootunian is singularly qualified to give us a Marxism adequate to the conditions of a genuine ‘world’ (as against a Hegelian ‘universalist’) history in a global age. The Marx who emerges from this book is a nuanced, empirical, and genuinely historical thinker instead of the pseudo-scientific ‘philosopher of history’ met with in textbook accounts of Western Marxism.” —Hayden White, University of California, Santa Cruz This book deprovincializes Marx and the West’s cultural turn by returning to the theorist’s earlier explanations of capital’s origins and development, which followed a trajectory beyond Euro-America to Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Marx’s expansive view shows how local circumstances, time, and culture intervened to reshape capital’s system of production in these regions. Harootunian strips contemporary Marxism of its cultural preoccupation by reasserting the deep relevance of history. $35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-17480-0 2015 312 pages
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