Heroes

Franco "Bifo" Berardi

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Author
Franco "Bifo" Berardi
Publish Date
2015-02-03
Book Type
Paperback
Publisher Name
Verso
Subtitle
Mass Murder and Suicide
Number of Pages
231
ISBN-10
1781685789
ISBN-13
9781781685785
citemno
202937
Subject
Western Philosophy
SKU
9781781685785

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"--