The fiction of a thinkable world
Subtitle: body, meaning, and the culture of capitalism
By: by Michael Steinberg.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Subjectivity -- Social aspects.; Social sciences -- Philosophy.; Subjectivity -- Political aspects.; Political science -- Philosophy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-218) and index.
Table of contents: title: Overture; title: Theme; title: Theories : what is the human subject?; title: Do our pets love us?; title: Cognitive scientists and philosophers; title: Histories : linguistic totalitarianism; title: Meaning, monotheism, and certainty; title: The ethics of what and the ethics of how; title: Consequences : the last man standing; title: A state of suspended disintegration; title: Politics without goals.