ABSTRACT
This collection of essays, by some of the most distinguished public intellectuals and cultural critics in America explores various dimensions of what it means to live in the age of debt. They ask, what is the debt age? For that matter, what is debt? Is its meaning transhistorical or transcultural? Or is it imbued in ideology and thus historically contingent? What is the relationship between debt and theory? Whose debt is acknowledged and whose is ignored? Who is the paradigmatic subject of debt? How has debt affected contemporary academic culture? Their responses to these and other aspects of debt are sure to become required reading for anyone who wants to understand what it means to live in the debt age.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|70 pages
Theory and History
chapter 4|25 pages
The Indebted Man’s Cognitive Mapping
part 2|75 pages
Living in the Debt Age
part 3|73 pages
Resisting the Debt Age