Lyotard is considered one of the most brilliant and influential of French post-structuralist thinkers. Published in 1974 by Minuit, Économie libidinale is, of all his work to date, the most creative in its mode of writing and in its theorizing: a stunning, dense, brilliant piece in which Lyotard, ranging from Marxist and Freudian theory to contemporary arts, argues that political economy is charged with passions and, reciprocally, that passions are infused with the political.Lyotard discusses Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx and capitalism, and presents the work of Deleuze, Guattari and Jean Baudrillard as "brother" critiques. He maintains that his theories are "synchronized and copolarized" with those of Baudrillard, although he reproaches him "for still believing in a 'truth' which is presumably forgotten or repressed by Marxism."According to Lyotard, every political economy is libidinal: that intensity has no equivalent in currency does not rid the circuits of capital of the force of libidinal investment. Intensive "exchanges" are ignorant of the constitutive negation of both political economy and natural theology since the libido invests unconditionallyContents:1. The Great Ephemeral Skin2. The Tensor3. The Desire Named Marx4. Trade5. Capital6. Economy of This Writing