The Triumph of Venus: The Erotics of the Market (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520234314)

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.

Author: Jeanne Lorraine Schroeder
ISBN-10: 0520234316
ISBN-13: 9780520234314
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 02/23/2004
Pages: 318
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 9.14h x 6.06w x 0.99d