1st Edition

Exhausting Modernity Grounds for a New Economy

By Teresa Brennan Copyright 2001
    224 Pages
    by Routledge

    224 Pages
    by Routledge

    Exhausting Modernity is a bold new work on the exhaustion of our resources, both natural and human. Drawing on the insights of Marx and Freud, it provides a compelling analysis of the exhaustion pervading modern capitalism: environmental collapse, rising poverty levels and increasing global economic disparity. This is essential reading for political and social theorists, philosophers, economists, and all those interested in the environment.

    Chapter 1 Introduction; Part 1 Part I Psyche; Chapter 2 The Foundational Fantasy; Chapter 3 Energetics; Chapter 4 Inertia; Part 2 Part II Economy; Chapter 5 The Time/Energy Axis; Chapter 6 Production and Real Value; Chapter 7 The Speed of Acquisition, or How Space Replaces Time; Part 3 Part III Polity; Chapter 8 The State and Exploitation; Chapter 9 Imaginary Time; Chapter 10 Exploitation and Opposition;

    Biography

    Teresa Brennan is Schmidt Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Florida Atlantic University.