World of the Third and Hegemonic Capital: Between Marx and Freud

Chakrabarti, Anjan; Dhar, Anup

This book brings together Marxian philosophy and Lacanian psychoanalysis to argue that the hegemonic form of global capital is founded on the foreclosure of class and world of the third. The authors counterpose the world of the third to the mainstream notion of the third world, seen as a lacking other in desperate need of aid and development. Thus, for them, the hegemonic form of global capital is engendered through the foregrounding of the poor, victim third world and the foreclosure of the non-capitalist world of the third. Building on what they characterize as an ab-original reading of Marxian historical materialism and the Lacanian real, the authors seek to conceptualize a counter-hegemonic revolutionary subject as a basis for postcapitalist alternatives to the hegemonic form of global capital.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2023-05-05

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783031250163

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-25017-0

Dimensions: 210.0cm x148.0cm

Pages: 326.0