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The Government of Desire The Government of Desire A Genealogy of the Liberal Subject Miguel de Beistegui The University of Chicago Press Chicago and London The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London © 2018 by The University of Chicago All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations in critical articles and reviews. For more information, contact the University of Chicago Press, 1427 E. 60th St., Chicago, IL 60637. Published 2018 Printed in the United States of America 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 1 2 3 4 5 ISBN- 13: 978- 0- 226- 54737- 4 (cloth) ISBN- 13: 978- 0- 226- 54740- 4 (e- book) DOI: https:// doi .org /10 .7208 /chicago /9780226547404 .001 .0001 Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Beistegui, Miguel de, 1966– author. Title: The government of desire : a genealogy of the liberal subject / Miguel de Beistegui. Description: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017040680 | ISBN 9780226547374 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780226547404 (e- book) Subjects: LCSH: Political science— Philosophy. | Sex— Political aspects. | Recognition (Philosophy) Classification: LCC JA74.5.B458 2018 | DDC 320.01— dc23 LC record available at https:// lccn .loc .gov /2017040680 ♾ This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48- 1992 (Permanence of Paper). At nova res novum vocabulum flagitat. Lorenzo Valla, Antidotum in Facium 1.14 Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Why Desire? 1 Part One Homo Oeconomicus 1 The Birth of Homo Oeconomicus 31 2 Man’s “Vain and Insatiable Desires,” or the “Oeconomy of Greatness” 45 3 Neoliberal Governmentality 63 Part Two Homo Sexualis 4 “Abnormal Desires” and “Barbarous Instincts”: The Birth of the Sexual Pervert 85 5 Instincts or Drives? The Birth of Psychoanalysis 111 Part Three Homo Symbolicus 6 Recognition, That “Most Ardent Desire” 143 7 Struggles for Recognition 171 8 The Consolations of Recognition 187 Conclusion: Desire, Again . . . 209 Notes 229 Bibliography 267 Index 289 Acknowledgments This book owes a great debt of gratitude to the friends and colleagues ix who have commented on it, criticized it, and helped me revise (and hope- fully refine) some of its claims and arguments: Éric Alliez, Chiara Bottici, Arnold Davidson, Marjorie Gracieuse, Daniele Lorenzini, Peter Hallward, Stephen Houlgate, David James, Johanna Oksala, Peter Osborne, Judith Revel, and Claudia Stein. An equal debt is owed to the many postgradu- ate students at the University of Warwick and the New School for Social Research who were patient enough to listen to early versions of this book, and to respond to some of its theses. I am also grateful to the anony- mous reviewers of the manuscript for their insightful comments and help- ful suggestions. Last but not least, I want to thank my editor, Elizabeth Branch Dyson, whose sharp eye and enthusiastic support were invaluable.

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Liberalism, Miguel de Beistegui argues in The Government of Desire, is best described as a technique of government directed towards the self, with desire as its central mechanism. Whether as economic interest, sexual drive, or the basic longing for recognition, desire is accepted as a core component
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