Heroes
Subtitle: mass murder and suicide
By: Franco "Bifo" Berardi
Series: Verso futures; Verso futures
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9781781685778; 9781781685785
Subjects: Philosophy; Suicide; Mass murder; Nihilism (Philosophy)
Description: "What is the relationship between capitalism and mental health? Through an exhilarating mix of philosophical and psychoanalytical theory and reportage - from the suicide epidemic in Korea to the wave of American mass murders - the prominent Italian thinker Franco 'Bifo' Berardi traces the social roots of the mental malaise of our age. His darkest and most unsettling book to date, Berardi proposes dystopian irony as a strategy to disentangle ourselves from the deadly embrace of neoliberalism"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and filmography.