Neoliberal Techniques of Social Suffering (eBook, ePUB)

Political Resistance and Critical Theory from Latin America and Spain
Redaktion: Quintana, Laura; Madrid, Nuria Sánchez

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Neoliberal Techniques of Social Suffering: Political Resistance and Critical Theory from Latin America and Spain is the result of the critical and political commitment of various Latin American and Spanish philosophers who share a critical approach to the global "stealth revolution" in recent decades, where neoliberalism has forced the well-being and reproduction of life to adapt to a system devastating for both humans and non-humans. The authors voice the shared concern of contemporary Spanish and Latin American societies to build new conceptions of the public and the common through mobilizing affects usually disavowed in political theory. If, in Ancient Greece, the idea of strengthening the most vulnerable and weakest was deplored as the art of sophists, this collection edited by Laura Quintana and Nuria Sánchez Madrid explores the other side of our social world to revive grassroots strategies of resistance and emancipation, which are able to bring about new distributions of power, welfare, and discursive legitimation and to extend our goal of creating a radically democratic world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781666915082
• Artikelnr.: 68097712

Autorenporträt

Laura Quintana is associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Universidad de Los Andes. Nuria Sánchez Madrid is associate professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University Complutense of Madrid.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Social Suffering and Political Agency against Neoliberal
Disrepair by Laura Quintana and Nuria Sánchez Madrid
Part I: Distorting the Social Contract. The Challenge of Addressing
Neoliberal Cultural Politics
Chapter 1: Clash of Narratives: The Neoliberal Systemic Doctrine as Cause
of Second-Order Suffering by Alessandro Pinzani
Chapter 2: The Cultural Politics of Neoliberalism: Housing
Financialization, Transformations of Work and Institutional Challenges in
Today's Spain by Nuria Sánchez Madrid
Part II: Neoliberal Subjectivation and The Effects of Depoliticizing
Psychic Suffering
Chapter 3: Economics is the Continuation of Psychology by Other Means:
Psychic Suffering and Neoliberalism as a Moral Economy by Vladimir Safatle
Chapter 4: Neoliberalism and Psychic Suffering: The Political Potential of
Discontent by Rodrigo Castro Orellana
Chapter 5: Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness: The Perils of Modern
Subjectivity in Contemporary Mexico by Zenia Yébenes
Part III: Disclosing the Politi