Main description:

A diverse set of contributors, from backgrounds in psychoanalysis, philosophy, anthropology and cultural studies.
Covers topics including loss of hope and confidence, international political and social turbulence, technological change, climate change, and the stresses of late stage capitalism.
The only book to explore the relationship between social turbulence, shame, and temporality.

Contents:

1. Man and Machine: Dilemmas of the Human. 2. On Caesura, Temporality and Ego-Destructive Shame: Ominous Transitions in Everyday Life. 3. Protecting our Humanity in the Midst of Tribal Warfare: Thoughts for our Time. 4. From Leper-Thing to Another Side of Care: A Reading of Lacan's Logical Collectivity. 5. Hontologie: Lacan, Shame and the Advent of the Subject. 6. Nihilism and Truth: Tarrying with the Negative. 7. Towards a Metacosmics of Shame. 8. Hineni, Hineni: Answering to Other through Disaster and Exile, Shame and Temporality. 9. What Lies Beneath: Shame, Time and Diachrony.