Analysis of Selfishness and Human Nature in Capitalist Societies

This week Coop and Taylor had the pleasure of hosting Adrian Johnston. Adrian is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque. He is the author of many books, including Time Driven: Metapsychology and the Splitting of the Drive; Irrepressible Truth: On Lacan’s “The Freudian Thing”; and A New German Idealism: Hegel, Žižek, and Dialectical Materialism. This year he has co-published, with Lorenzo Chiesa, God Is Undead: Psychoanalysis for Unbelievers, and has published Infinite Greed: The Inhuman Selfishness of Capital, which is the subject of today’s topic. Book: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/infinite-greed/9780231214728 Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Johnston_(philosopher) Departmental: https://philosophy.unm.edu/people/faculty/profile/adrian-johnston.html Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh