| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 207 p.) |
| Contents |
What is a victim? -- Freud, gender, and the epigenesis of morality: a critique -- The crisis in psychoanalysis: resolution through Husserlian phenomenology and feminism -- Addictions, akrasia, and self psychology: a Socratic and psychoanalytic view of akrasia as victim blaming -- Fanon, phenomenology, and the decentering of philosophy: Lewis Gordon's Her majesty's other children: sketches of racism from a neocolonial age -- Race and culture: victim blaming in psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis -- Autonomy, empathy, and transcendence in Sophocles' Antigone: a phenomenological perspective, with an epilogue: on Lacan's Antigone -- Neither victim nor survivor be: who is Beloved's baby? |
| Summary |
In Neither Victim nor Survivor: Thinking toward a New Humanity, Marilyn Nissim-Sabat offers a comprehensive critique of the interrelated concepts of "victim" and "survivor" as they have been ideologically distorted in Western thought. Framed by thephenomenological perspective of Edmund Husserl, Nissim-Sabat carries out her argument through an intense engagement with current scholarly work on Toni Morrison's Beloved, Sophocles' Antigone, akrasia, psychoanalysis, critical race theory, feminist philosophy of science, and Marxism. Nissim-Sabat ultimately proposes that a new consciousness, enable |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Victims.
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Victims in literature.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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Victims in literature
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Victims
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020739920 |
| ISBN |
9780739139288 |
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0739139282 |
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