Robert Samuels

Psychoanalyzing the Politics of the New Brain Sciences (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Relates Neoliberalism to the new brain sciences and psychoanalysis

Articulates the formation of the Governmental University Medical Pharmaceutical complex

Offers a new perspective on contemporary economics and politics

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
• Seitenzahl: 143
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319718910
• Artikelnr.: 53059090

Autorenporträt

Robert Samuels has PhDs in English and Psychoanalysis. He teaches advanced writing at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. He is the author of eleven books including Psychoanalyzing the Left and Right after Donald Trump and Educating Inequality (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Damasio's Error: The Politics of Biological Determinism after Freud.- Chapter 3. The Backlash Politics of Evolutionary Psychology: Pinker's Blank Slate.- Chapter 4. Behavioral Economics: Nudge and Technocratic Liberalism.- Chapter 5. The Brain Sciences Against the Welfare State.- Chapter 6. Drugging Discontent: Psychoanalysis, Drives and the Governmental University Medical Pharmaceutical Complex (GUMP).- Chapter 7. Conclusion.