Lexington Books
Pages: 228
Trim: 6½ x 9¼
978-1-66694-721-2 • Hardback • September 2024 • $110.00 • (£85.00)
978-1-66694-722-9 • eBook • September 2024 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Stephen Felder is professor of humanities at Irvine Valley College.
Introduction: Feeling Anxiety
Chapter 1: Theorizing the Subject of Anxiety
Chapter 2: Anxiety and the Contradictions of Culture
Chapter 3: Anxiety in the Field of Vision
Chapter 4: Anxiety as the Truth of Sexuality
Chapter 5: Anxiety and the Fantasy of Race
Conclusion: In Defense of Anxiety, Or, How to Get Cancer without Becoming Wise
Anxiety is always singular. But Stephen Felder's magnificent Anxiety and the Contradictions of Culture reveals how anxiety unlocks a novel understanding of our current situation, if we know how to interpret it correctly. This book is a revelation, the first work to link the travails of anxiety to the maladies of our culture—and the first to show how anxiety must become a site for political action. Every page is a revelation about how anxiety works and what it tells us.
— Todd McGowan, University of Vermont