{"product_id":"9781350429277","title":"Freud’s 'Civilization and Its Discontents' A Reader’s Guide","description":"\u003ch3\u003eReader's Guides\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eFreud’s 'Civilization and Its Discontents'\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eA Reader’s Guide\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eJeffrey Bloechl\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilosophy \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA clear, penetrating, and philosophically rich companion to \u003ci\u003eCivilization and Its Discontents, \u003c\/i\u003ethis reader's guide is a path through one of Freud's most provocative and enduring works.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDesigned for students, scholars, and thoughtful readers across the humanities, it illuminates the intellectual landscape in which Freud wrote, the clinical insights that shaped his ideas, and the conceptual tensions that animate his late social theory. Unpacking the central difficulties of reading \u003ci\u003eCivilization and Its Discontents\u003c\/i\u003e, Jeffrey Bloechl takes readers through Freud's evolving vocabulary, the complex afterlife of his earlier theories, and the challenge of tracing arguments that span psychology, anthropology, religion, and moral philosophy. Through chapter-by-chapter commentary, this guide clarifies Freud's claims about the pleasure and reality principles, the psychic cost of social life, the formation of the super-ego, and the emergence of the death drive – all while weaving in helpful comparisons to thinkers such as Kant, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Marx.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFar from offering a single “correct” reading, Bloechl invites readers into an open, critical engagement with Freud's thought. Ultimately, this book equips its readers to grapple with Freud's unsettling diagnosis of modern life – its suffering, its moral demands, and its inescapable malaise – while opening new paths for reflection in philosophy, theology, and psychoanalytic theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eJeffrey Bloechl is Arthur J. Fitzgibbons Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Boston College, USA. His previous publications include \u003ci\u003eLevinas on the Primacy of the Ethical\u003c\/i\u003e (2022) and \u003ci\u003eOrdinary and Extraordinary and Other Essays in Phenomenology and Christianity\u003c\/i\u003e (2025)\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e08 July 2027\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\u003e9781350429277\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\u003e240\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51669713059980,"sku":"9781350429277","price":24.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_9ced21d6-1fac-4fac-bf52-f51c3396494d.jpg?v=1785203605","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781350429277","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}