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Dany-Robert Dufour - The Art of Shrinking Heads: The New Servitude of the Liberated in the Era of Total Capitalism - 9780745636900 - V9780745636900
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The Art of Shrinking Heads: The New Servitude of the Liberated in the Era of Total Capitalism

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Description for The Art of Shrinking Heads: The New Servitude of the Liberated in the Era of Total Capitalism Paperback. In this biting critique of our contemporary condition Dufour shows that the radical transformation of the subject brought about by neoliberalism what he calls the art of shrinking heads contains a new kind of violence which has far-reaching consequences for our ways of living together. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: KCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 292.
After the hell of the Nazis and the terror of Communism, it is possible that a new catastrophe has appeared on the horizon: this time it is neoliberalism that wants to create its own ‘new man’.


For two centuries, Kant’s critical subject and Freud’s neurotic subject provided us with philosophical templates for modernity, but today modern capitalism is systematically destroying these two subjects and replacing them with something new. The two subjects of modernity both presupposed some reference to a higher value or power (like Reason) which provided a symbolic guarantor, but neoliberalism, by emphasizing the ... Read more


In this biting critique of our contemporary condition Dufour shows that the radical transformation of the subject brought about by neoliberalism – what he calls ‘the art of shrinking heads’ – contains a new kind of violence which has far-reaching consequences for our ways of living together.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745636900
SKU
V9780745636900
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About Dany-Robert Dufour
Dany-Robert Dufour is Professor of Philosophy and Education at the University of Paris VIII.

Reviews for The Art of Shrinking Heads: The New Servitude of the Liberated in the Era of Total Capitalism
"This little four-chapter book is valuable because it engages with aspects of that theory that are not readily available to an English-speaking audience. There is a useful range of references to existing French debates in the book, and the book is a good contribution to these debates, and so also as a consequence to some parallel debates in the English-speaking ... Read more

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