Enjoyment Right & Left by Todd McGowan, Sublation Press, Paperback, Like New, Žižek Subtitle: Why your politics are driven by what you secretly enjoy Your politics aren’t about what you think. They’re about what you enjoy. Your favorite pundit, your pet outrage, your 2 a.m. doomscroll: Todd McGowan says they’re all symptoms of enjoyment, the strange, excessive, sacrificial kind that’s closer to suffering than to pleasure. And he says the left and right are both stuck in it. Enjoyment Right & Left has cardboard-box packaging on the cover with a frowning smile on it. It’s a book about unconscious gratification, delivered in a package that looks like it just arrived from the world’s largest retailer, disappointed in you. What the book argues ∙ The right and the permissive-liberal “opposite” are less opposed than they appear. Both are organized around enjoyment. ∙ Our political postures come from unconscious gratifications that look more like sacrifice than satisfaction. ∙ A truly egalitarian society isn’t possible without radical enjoyment. ∙ McGowan proposes a universal form of enjoyment that could unite people in an egalitarian project. Praise Slavoj Žižek says it “deserves to become an instant classic.” Jennifer Friedlander (Real Deceptions) and Richard Boothby (Embracing the Void) also blurb it. Inside (17 chapters) The Outsiders · From Pleasure to Enjoyment · Called Up to the Spartacus League · Anticommunists or Monks · Robespierre vs. Napoleon · The Power of the Good · The Fecklessness of the Facts · Do I Contradict Myself? · Breaking the Law · The End of the World as We Know It · Keep Your Friends Close · Father Christmas · The Safety of the Superego · Let a Hundred Trotskys Bloom · The Opportunity of the Crisis · Capitalism’s Particular Problems · The Contradictory Politics of Emancipation Plus an index, so you can look up exactly where you’re being called out. About the author Todd McGowan teaches theory and film at the University of Vermont. His other books include Emancipation After Hegel, Capitalism and Desire, and The Impossible David Lynch. Details ∙ Title: Enjoyment Right & Left ∙ Author: Todd McGowan ∙ Publisher: Sublation Press ∙ Format: Paperback ∙ ISBN: 979-8-9867884-0-1 ∙ Language: English Condition: Like New Clean, tight copy with no markings, highlighting, or dog-ears. The cover is crisp and the spine is uncracked. Photos show the front, back, barcode, and contents page, so what you see is what you get. (The torn cardboard is part of the cover design, I promise.) Smoke-free home. Shipping Ships within [X] business days, carefully packed in a cardboard box. Combined shipping is available if you’re building a Lacan-to-Hegel-to-Marx pile. Buy it, read it, and decide whether your politics are principled or just fun.