Exhausting Modernity: Grounds for a New Economy is a bold and exciting new work on the exhaustion of our resources, both natural and human. Teresa Brennan marshalls the insights of Marx and Freud to provide a compelling and insightful analysis of the exhaustion pervading modern capitalism: environmental collapse, the rising poverty levels and the increase in global economic disparity. Linking the consumption of environmental resources to our own depleted psychic life, she shows that modernity must be rethought if we are to find a sustainable future for both the enviroment and our own psychic life. Exhausting Modernity is essential reading for all political and social theorists, philosophers, economists, and anyone interested in the environment.