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D. W. Winnicott and Political Theory: Recentering the Subject

Author(s) : Matthew H. Bowker, Editor : Amy Buzby

Reviews and Endorsements

True scholarship must encompass the rediscovery of sorely neglected sources of valuable knowledge. Bowker and Buzby and their likewise excellent contributors do us a great service in bringing Winnicott's profound psychoanalytic wisdom back into the fray of political theory, front and un-decentered. I couldn't recommend this stimulating and provocative volume too highly
Kurt Jacobsen, University of Chicago, USA and author of Freud's Foe and Pacification and Its Discontents

The shared premise of this book is illustrated with admirable deftness, theoretical sophistication, and lucidity across a wide spectrum of themes. The result is a volume which, in its totality, is much more than the sum of its parts. Anyone interested in the potential of free, humane subjectivity, and in the critique of anti-humanism, will find it deeply rewarding.
David N. Smith, Professor and Chair of Sociology, University of Kansas, USA

This book is a fine volume of uncommon depthand reach. A clinician rather than a political thinker, Winnicott’s work nevertheless emerges as a significant resource for our understanding of political agency and what a good society might be. Readers already persuaded of that fact will find their thinking taken in new and surprising directions. Those unfamiliar with Winnicott’s ideas will find many reasons to take seriously his relevance to political thought and to matters of pressing political concern.
Peter Redman, Editor of Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society