Symbolic Economies: After Marx and Freud / Edition 1

by Jean-Joseph Goux, Jennifer Curtiss Gage

Overview

A major participant in the influential Tel Quel group in France, Jean-Joseph Goux here offers a bold reevaluation of both the Marxist economic model and the Freudian concept of the unconscious. Symbolic Economies makes available for the first time in English generous selections from Goux's Freud, Marx: Economie et symbolique (1973) and Les iconoclastes (1978). Goux brings the theories of historical materialism and of psychoanalysis into play to illuminate and enrich each other, and undertakes a compelling integration of the contributions of structuralism and post-structuralism. Looking closely at the work of such major figures as Lacan, Derrida, and Nietzsche, Goux extends the implications of Marxism and Freudianism to an interdisciplinary semiotics of value and proposes a radical concept of exchange. Literary theorists, philosophers, social scientists, cultural historians, and feminist critics alike will welcome this important and provocative work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801496127
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Publication date:	02/01/1990
Series:	Cornell Paperbacks Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.75(d)
Age Range:	18 Years