ISBN: 9781781681749

Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Verso, 2014
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 15.5 x 2.5 x 23.5 cm

In this fascinating work of cultural theory and philosophy, Robert Pfaller explores the hidden cost of our contemporary approach to pleasure, belief and illusion. Sports, design, eroticism, social intercourse and games—indeed, all those aspects of our culture commonly deemed “pleasurable”—seem to require beliefs that many regard as illusory.