The Alienated Subject : On the Capacity to Hurt / / James A. Tyner

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910812412803321
• Autore: Tyner James A. <1966->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Minneapolis, MN : , : University of Minnesota Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• ISBN: 1-4529-6733-4; 1-4529-6732-6; 9781452967325
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (260 pages)
• Disciplina: 330.1220973
• Soggetti: Capitalism - Social aspects - United States; Alienation (Social psychology) - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: A flourishing, but mortal life -- The alienated subject -- The intersectionality of alienation -- Whose lives matter? -- The emancipated subject.
• Sommario/riassunto: "James A. Tyner offers a novel framework for understanding the alienated subject, situating it within racial capitalism and white supremacy. Directly addressing current economic trends and their rhetoric of xenophobia, discrimination, and violence and drawing insight from sources including Marxism, feminism, existentialism, and critical race theory, he develops a critique of both the liberal subject and the alienated subject"--