Anselm Jape Jappe 
The Self-Devouring Society [EPUB ebook] 
Capitalism, Narcissism, and Self-Destruction

Prologue: The King Who Devoured Himself

1. The Fetish that Rules the World

What the Critique of Value Can Teach Us

Bad Subjects

It’s Decartes’s Fault

Excursus: Descartes as Musicologist and the Acceleration of History

Kant, Philosopher of Liberty?

The Marquis de Sade and the Moral Law

Enough with Philosophy—Deeds

Narcissism as Consolation for Helplessness

2. Narcissism and Capitalism

What Is Narcissism?

Narcissism and the Fear of Separation

Psychoanalysis and Revolution: Erich Fromm and Herbert Marcuse

Christopher Lasch: Narcissism as a Critical Category

A Little History of Narcissism

The Narcissist-Fetishist Paradigm

Returning to Nature, Defeating Nature—or Defeating Capitalist Regression?

3. Contemporary Thought in the Face of Fetishism

The Loss of Boundaries?

Invoking Authority to Escape the Market?

From Idealism to Materialism

New Forms, Old Misfortunes?

New Discussions on the Misery of Our Times

A Mutation Older than the Digital

4. The Crisis of the Subject-Form

The Death-Wish of Capitalism

Amok and Jihad

Understanding Amok

No Reason Anywhere

Capitalism and Violence

Epilogue: What To Do with the Bad Subject?

Appendix: Essentials of the Critique of Value

Eric-John Russell teaches in the Department of Philosophy at Université Paris 8. He is the author of Spectacular Logic in Hegel and Debord: Why Everything is as it Seems and an editor of Cured Quail. He lives in Berlin.