The Limits of Death: Between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis

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Joanne Morra, Mark Robson, Marquard Smith
Manchester University Press, 2000 - 254 pages
This is the first ever book to analyse outsourcing - contracting out public services to private business interests. It is an unacknowledged revolution in the British economy, and it has happened quietly, but it is creating powerful new corporate interests, transforming the organisation of government at all levels, and is simultaneously enriching a new business elite and creating numerous fiascos in the delivery of public services. What links the brutal treatment of asylum-seeking detainees, the disciplining of welfare benefit claimants, the profits effortlessly earned by the privatised rail companies, and the fiasco of the management of security at the 2012 Olympics? In a word: outsourcing. This book, by the renowned research team at the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change in Manchester, is the first to combine 'follow the money' research with accessibility for the engaged citizen, and the first to balance critique with practical suggestions for policy reform.
 

Contents

To die laughing
3
The impossibility of Levinass death 222
22
the thirteen stations
40
Dead time a ghost story
57
Deaths incessant motion 79
79
Freuds metapsychology of the drives
106
sex death and Wagnerian androgyny
130
The last hours
144
Execution and fiction
167
translating my father
198
Deadly tales
220
To be announced
234
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