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The Triumph of Venus : The Erotics of the Market.
Title:
The Triumph of Venus : The Erotics of the Market.
Author:
Schroeder, Jeanne Lorraine.
ISBN:
9780520928855
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (328 pages)
Series:
Philosophy, Social Theory, and the Rule of Law ; v.10

Philosophy, Social Theory, and the Rule of Law
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: Juno Moneta -- 1. Pandora's Amphora: The Eroticism of Contract and Gift -- Prologue: The Myth of Allgifts -- The Nature of Gift -- Gift as Potlatch -- The Eroticism of the Market -- Commodification and Relationship -- Epilogue: Pandora's Gift -- 2. Orpheus's Desire: The End of the Market -- Prologue: Orpheus and Eurydice, Eros and Thanatos -- The Desire of Economics -- The Perfect Market -- Conclusion: The Ideal of the Market as the End of the Market -- 3. Narcissus's Death: The Calabresi-Melamed Trichotomy -- Prologue: Narcissus and Echo -- Viewing the Cathedral -- Seeing the Feminine -- Three's a Crowd: The Trichotomy -- Six Hypotheticals -- Property -- Procedural and Substantive Critiques -- Conclusion: The Masculine Phallic Metaphor -- 4. The Midas Touch: The Lethal Effect of Wealth Maximization -- Prologue: The Golden Touch -- Defining Wealth -- The Denial of Enjoyment -- Lacan avec Posner -- Epilogue: The Ass's Ears -- 5. The Eumenides' Return: The Founding of Law Through the Repression of the Feminine -- Prologue: The Deus ex Machina -- The Erinyes -- The Law's Necessary Repression of the Feminine -- Epilogue: The Birth of Venus -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Abstract:
The theory of law and economics that dominates American jurisprudence today views the market as rational and individuals as driven by the desire to increase their wealth. It is a view riddled with misconceptions, as Jeanne Lorraine Schroeder demonstrates in this challenging work, which looks at contemporary debates in legal theory through the lens of psychoanalysis and continental philosophy. Through metaphors drawn from classical mythology and interpreted via Lacanian psychoanalysis and Hegelian philosophy, Schroeder exposes the hidden and repressed erotics of the market. Her work shows how the predominant economic analysis of markets and the standard romantic critique of markets are in fact mirror images, reflecting the misconception that reason and passion are inalterably opposed.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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