Rage, Shame and Dread

Name: Rage, Shame and Dread
Brand: Wiley
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By: David Lloyd

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Paperback | 6 October 2026 | Edition Number 1

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A radical rethinking of dark emotion as critical responses to capitalism, colonial violence, and authoritarian power.

Rage, Shame and Dread is a bold and unsettling exploration of three emotions that resist consolation, correction, or easy political use. In this triptych of essays, David Lloyd dwells with rage, shame, and dread not as states to be managed or redeemed, but as objectless, intransitive forces that interrupt social life and expose its underlying wrongness.

Reading rage as "sheer manifestation," shame as a catastrophic rupture of self-relation, and dread as anticipation without an object, Lloyd traces how these unpromising emotions emerge from-and register-the violences of capitalism, colonialism, racialization, and authoritarian power. Drawing on Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Derrida, Frantz Fanon, Aim© C©saire, Joseph Conrad, Oscar Wilde, and S¸ren Kierkegaard, the book moves between philosophy, literature, and political theory to challenge therapeutic and liberal accounts that treat these feelings as errors to be corrected or tools for socialization.

Rather than pathologizing these states, Lloyd reads them as signals of damaged social relations and as thresholds to alternative forms of life-in-common. At once philosophically rigorous and politically urgent, Rage, Shame and Dread offers a radical rethinking of feeling as a site of critique, resistance, and collective possibility.

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