Twilight of the Self The Decline of the Individual in Late Capitalism

"Thompson ranges confidently over philosophy, psychoanalysis, and economics in this thoughtful and original study of the individual in a mass society."-Russell Jacoby, University of California, Los Angeles "Thompson is a preeminent scholar who has produced a controversial, interdisciplinary work that speaks to the future of the critical tradition. This is an innovative and important work that deserves to be read."-Stephen Eric Bronner, Rutgers University "In the tradition of the great diagnostic philosophers-from Marx and Nietzsche, Lukács and Foucault, to Wendy Brown, Nancy Fraser, and Rahel Jaeggi-Michael J. Thompson's Twilight of the Self probes the central problems of contemporary social and political life. Like a 'doctor' for 'sick cultures,' this ambitious book seeks to identify the source of our ailment, theorize its origins, and prescribe a treatment."-Jeremy Kingston Cynamon, The Review of Politics