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The armature of economic neo-liberalism... cannot concede any space to the idea of counter-conduct; counter-conduct becomes inconceivable, since conduct as such is a concept fully integrated into a scientific-epistemological field. Regime of veridiction, homo oeconomicus, rational behavior, ethical and political neutralization – such is the scheme, for instance, of American neo-liberalism. In this setting, counter-conduct is nothing more than a form of irrationality, just as in the history of psychiatry, it is but a form of abnormality.

Arnold Davidson

Arnold Davidson

Arnold Davidson

Born: July 22, 1955 (age 71)

Bio: Arnold I. Davidson Ph.D. is Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor in Philosophy, Comparative Literature, History of Science, and Philosophy of Religion at the University of Chicago.

Known for:

The Emergence of Sexuality (2001)
The Late Derrida (2007)
El Poder Psiquiatrico (2005)
He philosophia ōs tropos zōēs

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