Adrian Johnston
Infinite Greed: The Inhuman Selfishness of Capital
Infinite Greed: The Inhuman Selfishness of Capital
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Adrian Johnston's Infinite Greed challenges the consensus that selfishness is essential to capitalism, arguing that it is driven by an inhuman capital that demands sacrifice and disregard for consequences. By combining Marxism and psychoanalysis, Johnston reveals how capitalism disregards and overrides rational self-interest, perpetuating crises and ills.
Format: Hardback
Length: 392 pages
Publication date: 14 May 2024
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Selfishness is essential to capitalism, with advocates and opponents claiming that it is. Adrian Johnston's book Infinite Greed challenges this consensus by revealing how the relentless pursuit of profits is not fundamentally animated by human acquisitiveness but rather by capitalism's strange "infinite greed." Johnston traces the mechanisms that compel capitalist subjects to obey the cold imperative to accumulate in perpetuity and without limits, even without regard for the consequences for everyone and everything else. Facing crises such as spiraling wealth inequality and the profit-driven prospect of a looming ecological apocalypse, the rational self-interest of the majority would seem to dictate putting a stop to capitalist accumulation. However, Johnston shows why and how capitalism, rather than being responsive to peoples rationally selfish interests, disregards and overrides them instead. Infinite Greed pairs Freudian and Lacanian concepts with the economic heart of Marx's historical materialism, bringing to light the complex intertwining of political and libidinal economies that keep us invested and complicit in perpetuating capitalism and its ills.
Weight: 716g
Dimension: 164 x 243 x 30 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780231214728
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