残酷的乐观主义

Name: 残酷的乐观主义
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Rating: 9 (293 reviews)
ISBN: 9787500881322

[美]劳伦·贝兰特

出版社

中国工人出版社

出版时间

2023-06-30

ISBN

9787500881322

评分

★★★★★

标签

社会学社会文化哲学

书籍介绍

这本书最锋利处，在于它逼我们承认：让我们深陷的渴望，恰恰是拖垮我们的东西。贝兰特的

作者简介

作者简介：劳伦·贝兰特，美国著名文化理论家，康奈尔大学博士，芝加哥大学英语系教授，美国艺术与科学学院院士。2019年获得现代语言学会哈贝尔终身成就奖。著有《女性的抱怨》《剖析国家幻想》等。译者简介：吴昊，伦敦政治经济学院博士，华中师范大学社会学院讲师。研究关注家庭、性别与文化政治等。

AI导读

核心看点

阐释残酷乐观主义概念，揭示渴望如何阻碍自我实现
分析新自由主义下美好生活幻想的破灭与情感僵局
结合文艺作品解读，提供在危机常态化中生存的指南

读者共识

概念极具启发性，精准捕捉了当代生活的无力感与僵局
行文晦涩难懂，被读者戏称为天书，阅读门槛较高
虽局限美国语境，但对理解全球性情感政治仍有价值

精彩摘录

"These kinds of potimistic relation are not inherently cruel. They become cruel only when the object that draws your attachment actively impedes the aim that brought you to it initially. All attachement is optimistic, if we describe optimism as the force that moves you out of yourself and into the wo"
"But individuality—that monument of liberal fantasy, that site of commodity fetishism, that project of certain psychoanalytic desires, that sign of cultural and national modernity—is to me a contrary form, a form already interrupted by inconstancy that has a hard time bearing it."
"...to excitement at the prospect of "the change that's gonna come." Or, the change that is not going to come: one of optimism's ordinary pleasures is to induce conventionality, that place where appetites find a shape in the predictable comforts of the good-life genres that a person or a world has se"
"Such that a person or a world finds itself bound to a situation of profound threat that is, at the same time, profoundly confirming. At center of ths project, though, is that moral-intimate-economic thing called "the good life.""
"The fantasies that are fraying include, particularly, upward mobility, job security, political and social equality, and lively, durable intimacy. The set of dissolving assurances also includes meritocracy, the sense that liberal-capitalist society wil lreliably provide opportunities for individuals "
"The genre of crisis is itself a heightening interpretive genre, thetorically turning an ongoing condition into an intensifided situation in which extensive threats to survival are said to dominate the reproduction of life."
"Marcuse's propetic description of postwar U.S. society charts it out: while people comfort themselves with stories about beating the system or being defeated by it, they "continue the struggle for existence in painful, costly and obsolete forms.""
"In the artwork or in response to other scenes, when an apprehending sensorium senses a potentially significant threat to the ordinary's ongoing atmosphere, it sparks the rhythms of situation tragedy, with its menacing new realism. Genres provide an affective expectation of the experience of watching"