A Psychoanalytical-Historical Perspective on Capitalism and Politics explores how empathy once shaped the collective unconscious, before being replaced by rampant individualistic drive to power.
Mino Vianello uses "radical federalism" to define a new approach to democracy, hoping for an end to the repetition of outdated political and economic ideals to solve the world’s democratic crisis. The book brings together a multitude of disciplines and perspectives, including Marxism, history, class, feminism, politics and empathy, to provide a comprehensive and honest history of power from the Enlightenment to the present day.
This interdisciplinary study will be key reading for academics and scholars of Jungian studies, politics, sociology, history and economics.
Author(s): Mino Vianello
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 141
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Premise
Introduction
The plot of the book
Intermezzo 1: The contradiction
1. Gender and power
2. Instrumental rationality and empathic rationality
3. Strategic versus empathic mentality
Intermezzo 2: Space
4. An example: The law
5. The new female context
Intermezzo 3: What Horkheimer and Adorno were unable
to think of
A Political science
B Psychology
C Sociology
D Historiography
E Economics
Conclusion
6. The legacy of class struggles
7. The lingering death of the nation states
8. Empathy as a collective phenomenon
Intermezzo 4: Immigration
9. A new road to democracy
Intermezzo 5: Radical federalism
Conclusion
Appendix 1: Prof. Inglehart’s strictures on values
Appendix 2: Economic structure and social inequalities
Appendix 3: Democracy in America
Afterword: Gender, power and states of self
Bibliography
Index of names
Subject index
