The Necroculture of Capitalism [application of Fromm's theories to art]
- In the television series >The Walking Dead<, survivors of an apocalypse take shelter in a prison, while zombies circle the fences looking for a way in. The zombies are shadows cast by a past to which the survivors cannot return but which they cannot escape. The living dead represent the past that, as Karl Marx wrote, >weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.< The prison that holds us today is what right-wing philosopher Francis Fukuyama called >the end of history,< a predicament in which >we cannot picture to ourselves a world that is essentially different from the present one, and at the same time better.<
MetadatenAuthor: | Charles Thorpe |
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Parent Title (English): | Necroculture, New York (Palgrave Macmillan) 2016, pp. 1-52. [Online ISBN 978-1-137-58303-1] [doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58303-1_1] |
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Document Type: | Articles |
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Language: | English |
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Year of first Publication: | 2016 |
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Release Date: | 2024/04/04 |
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Format: | to purchase via publisher |
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IdNo: | Thorpe_C_2016a |
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Writings about Erich Fromm (Secondary Literature): | Articles / Artikel |
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Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive: | Articles / Artikel |
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