Description
This book assesses the untimely relevance of Marx and Freud for Latin America, thinkers alien to the region who became an inspiration to its beleaguered activists, intellectuals, writers and artists during times of political and cultural oppression.
Bruno Bosteels presents ten case studies arguing that art and literature-the novel, poetry, theatre, film-more than any militant tract or theoretical essay, can give us a glimpse into Marxism and psychoanalysis, not so much as sciences of history or of the unconscious, respectively, but rather as two intricately related modes of understanding the formation of subjectivity.
The turbulent continent through the eyes of Marx and Freud
About the Author
Bruno Bosteels, Professor of Romance Studies at Cornell University, is the author of Badiou and Politics, Marx and Freud in Latin America, and The Actuality of Communism. He currently serves as the General Editor of Diacritics.
Reviews
Positively inspiring. -- Jean Franco, author of The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City
Some of the stories he tells are familiar, but Bosteels has not written yet another history of orthodox Marxism and official psychoanalysis in Latin America. His considerable originality lies in his focus on intriguing and under-appreciated thinkers, often heretics within already heretical traditions. * The New Inquiry *
Book Information
ISBN 9781844677559
Author Bruno Bosteels
Format Paperback
Page Count 336
Imprint Verso Books
Publisher Verso Books
Weight(grams) 530g
Dimensions(mm) 236mm * 152mm * 28mm
Bruno Bosteels presents ten case studies arguing that art and literature-the novel, poetry, theatre, film-more than any militant tract or theoretical essay, can give us a glimpse into Marxism and psychoanalysis, not so much as sciences of history or of the unconscious, respectively, but rather as two intricately related modes of understanding the formation of subjectivity.
The turbulent continent through the eyes of Marx and Freud
About the Author
Bruno Bosteels, Professor of Romance Studies at Cornell University, is the author of Badiou and Politics, Marx and Freud in Latin America, and The Actuality of Communism. He currently serves as the General Editor of Diacritics.
Reviews
Positively inspiring. -- Jean Franco, author of The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City
Some of the stories he tells are familiar, but Bosteels has not written yet another history of orthodox Marxism and official psychoanalysis in Latin America. His considerable originality lies in his focus on intriguing and under-appreciated thinkers, often heretics within already heretical traditions. * The New Inquiry *
Book Information
ISBN 9781844677559
Author Bruno Bosteels
Format Paperback
Page Count 336
Imprint Verso Books
Publisher Verso Books
Weight(grams) 530g
Dimensions(mm) 236mm * 152mm * 28mm
