This collection of essays, by some of the most distinguished public intellectuals and cultural critics in America explores various dimensions of what it means to live in the age of debt. Their findings are sure to become required reading for anyone who wants to understand what it means to live in The Debt Age.

Jeffrey R. Di Leo is Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and Professor of English and Philosophy at the University of Houston-Victoria. He is editor and publisher of American Book Review, and the founder and editor of symplok¿. His most recent books include American Literature as World Literature (2018) and the Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory (forthcoming, 2018).

Peter Hitchcock is Professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center and Baruch College of the City University of New York. He is also on the faculty of Women's Studies and Film Studies at the Graduate Center. He is the Associate Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the Graduate Center. His recent books include The New Public Intellectual: Politics, Theory, and the Public Sphere (2016; co-edited with Jeffrey R. Di Leo) and Labor in Culture, or, Worker of the World(s) (2017).

Sophia A. McClennen is Professor of International Affairs and Comparative Literature at Penn State University and founding director of the Center for Global Studies. She studies human rights, globalization, media and politics, with two recent books on related topics Is Satire Saving Our Nation? (2014), coauthored with Remy Maisel, and The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights (2015), co-edited with Alexandra Schultheis Moore. Her newest book is Globalization and Latin American Cinema: Towards a New Critical Paradigm (2018). She also has a column with Salon where she regularly covers politics and culture.

List of Contributors; Acknowledgments; The Debt Age: An Introduction, Jeffrey R. Di Leo, Peter Hitchcock, and Sophia A. McClennen; Part I. Theory and History; 1. The Rights to Debt, Sophia A. McClennen; 2. Kant at the Federal Reserve: On the Aesthetics of Quantitative Easing, Peter Hitchcock; 3. Debt and Sensuality, Christopher Breu; 4. The Indebted Man's Cognitive Mapping: Boundaries and Biohorror in the Neoliberal Debt Economy, Liane Tanguay; Part II. Living in the Debt Age; 5. The Debt Experience, Jeffrey D. Williams; 6. Paying Your Debt to Society: The Neoliberal State and the Logic of Quid Pro Quo, Esther Peeren; 7. Indebted Youth and Neoliberalism, Tyler J. Pollard; 8. Austerity Politics and the Neoliberal Targeting of the Body in Public Education, Kenneth J. Saltman; Part III. Resisting the Debt Age; 9. On Debt Resistance, Jeffrey R. Di Leo; 10. Debt and Financial Literacy Education: An Ethics for Capital or the Other?; 11. Student Debt and the Social Functions of Consolidation College, Christopher Newfield; 12. Confronting the Creditor Class, Andrew Ross; Index