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Todd McGowan on Right and Left Enjoyment

Feb 23, 2023

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Episode notes

Introduction

3min

The Influence of Political Pleasure on Political Decision Making

2min

The Politics of Pleasure

2min

The Paradox of Political Pleasure

2min

The Paradox of Sacrifice and Enjoyment

4min

The Paradox of Conservative Politics

5min

The Effect of Extremism on Critical Race Theory

3min

The Left Is a Stick in the Enemy

2min

The Left's Paradox of Non-Belonging

6min

10.

The Leftist Contradiction of Non-Belonging

3min

11.

The Irony of the Master Slave

4min

12.

The Circular Logical Loop of Criminality

3min

13.

The Politics of Legality

2min

14.

The Politics of Conception

6min

15.

The Leftist Position and the Leftist Identity Politics

2min

16.

Nietzsche's Critique of Christianity as Slave Morality

3min

17.

The Dual Impulse on the Social Democraticish Left to Abolish Class

3min

18.

The Left Shouldn't Be to Destroy Elon Musk

3min

19.

The Paradox of Individualism and Collectivism

2min

20.

The Paradox of Freud

3min

21.

The Left's Role in the Rise of Capitalism

4min

22.

The Racist Fantasy: A History of Race

4min

23.

The Importance of Race in the Pre-Capitalist World

2min

24.

The Evolution of the Modern World

4min

25.

The Evolution of the Enjoyment Advantage

5min

26.

Lacan: A Psychoanalytic Thinker

2min

27.

The Importance of Patience

3min

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Todd McGowan is a Professor of English at the University of Vermont, USA. He is the author of 15 books, including Universality and Identity Politics (2020), Emancipation After Hegel (2019), and Capitalism and Desire (2016). We discuss his recent book for Sublation Media, "Enjoyment: Left and Right."

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