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