Behind Our Backs, Part Three
Moishe Postone on theorists of culture and society.
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Behind Our Backs, Part Two
Moishe Postone on theorists of the self.
Behind Our Backs, Part One
An interview with Moishe Postone on "Self, Culture, & Society," and the value of general education requirements.
The Anus: An FAQ, Part Three
The act of restricting one's own pleasure in deference to the pleasure of others is, for Marx, the precondition of relating to others in an exchange society.
A New Type of Educational Illness in Brooklyn Public Schools
In consistently "failing" schools, the competitive spirit is always present, but with an estranged character.
The Psychoeducational Middle School
The introduction of a therapeutic element in the absence of any explicit acknowledgment of the social and material context in which tensions arise intensifies repression rather than relieving it.
The Competitive Personality Then and Now
If anything has changed in the theory of the "competitive personality" since Mills's time, it is that the kind of social personality it outlines is more ubiquitous and embodied more spontaneously.
