{"product_id":"9781350214958","title":"Capitalism and the Limits of Desire","description":"\u003ch1\u003eCapitalism and the Limits of Desire\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eJohn Roberts\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilosophy \/ Movements \/ Critical Theory\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eAddressing Spinoza's perennial question: “why do the masses fight for their servitude as if it was salvation?”, \u003ci\u003eCapitalism and the Limits of Desire\u003c\/i\u003e examines the ways in which self-love as the care of the self has become intertwined with self-love as the pursuit of pleasure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith ongoing austerity and misery for so many, why does capitalism seem to be so insurmountable, so impossible to move beyond? John Roberts offers a compelling response: it is because we love the love of self that capitalism enables, even though it brings anxiety and self-scrutiny. Capitalism in the form of commodities, and, more importantly, the online platforms through which we express ourselves, has become so much of who we are, of how we define self-love as self-pleasure that it is difficult to imagine ourselves outside of it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRoberts contends that disentangling ourselves from this collapsing of self into capitalism is possible and that understanding the insidious nature of capitalist thinking even when it comes to our deepest pleasures is the starting point. Using early and late Marx, Lacan's distinction between pleasure and desire and the recent debate on perfectionism (Hurka) as his guides, Roberts lays out a way for individuals to move forward and forge a link between self and desire outside the oppressive demands of platform capitalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eJohn Roberts\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Art and Aesthetics at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. He is author of \u003ci\u003eThe Intangibilities of Form: Skill and Deskilling in Art After the Readymade\u003c\/i\u003e (2007), \u003ci\u003eThe Necessity of Errors\u003c\/i\u003e (2010), \u003ci\u003ePhotography and Its Violations \u003c\/i\u003e(2014), \u003ci\u003eRevolutionary Time and the Avant-Garde\u003c\/i\u003e (2015), \u003ci\u003eThoughts on an Index Not Freely Given \u003c\/i\u003e(2016) and His \u003ci\u003eThe Reasoning of Unreason\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury 2018) and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eBoris Arvatov, Art and Production \u003c\/i\u003e(2017)\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e09 September 2021\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781350214958\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e264\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e11.04\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51369326903436,"sku":"9781350214958","price":31.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_c3b90a3b-98c7-43d2-9327-271ffd7e03a3.jpg?v=1783878764","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781350214958","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}