The Government of Desire
A Genealogy of the Liberal Subject
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Introduction: Why Desire?
Part One Homo Oeconomicus
1 The Birth of Homo Oeconomicus
2 Man’s “Vain and Insatiable Desires,” or the “Oeconomy of Greatness”
3 Neoliberal Governmentality
Part Two Homo Sexualis
4 “Abnormal Desires” and “Barbarous Instincts”: The Birth of the Sexual Pervert
5 Instincts or Drives? The Birth of Psychoanalysis
Part Three Homo Symbolicus
6 Recognition, That “Most Ardent Desire”
7 Struggles for Recognition
8 The Consolations of Recognition
Conclusion: Desire, Again . . .
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Philosophy: General Philosophy | Philosophy of Society | Political Philosophy
Political Science: Political and Social Theory
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