Being, Time, Bios: Capitalism and Ontology (SUNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature.) - Softcover

Kordela, A. Kiarina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1438445903 ISBN 13: 9781438445908

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2014

Synopsis

A psychoanalytic theory of biopolitics.

Although both share a focus on human life as it is inscribed by power, Foucauldian biopolitics and Lacanian psychoanalysis have remained isolated from and even opposed to one another. In Being, Time, Bios, A. Kiarina Kordela aims to overcome this divide, formulating a historical ontology that draws from Spinoza, Marx, Heidegger, and Sartre to theorize the changed character of “being” and “time” under secular capitalism. With insights from film theory, postcolonial studies, and race theory, Kordela’s wide-ranging analysis suggests a radically new understanding of contemporary capitalism―one in which uncertainty, sacrifice, immortality, and the gaze are central.

About this title

About the Author:

A. Kiarina Kordela is Professor of German and Director of the Critical Theory Program at Macalester College and currently holds an honorary position with the Writing and Society Research Group, University of Western Sydney, Australia. She is the author of Surplus: Spinoza, Lacan (also published by SUNY Press), and the coeditor (with Dimitris Vardoulakis) of Freedom and Confinement in Modernity: Kafka’s Cages.

About this edition

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1438445903
• ISBN 13: 9781438445908
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 236