"Challenging the contemporary notion of "self-care" and the Western mania for "self-possession," The Comic Self proposes an alternate and less toxic model for human aspiration: a comic self. Campbell and Farred range across philosophy, literature, and contemporary comedy to uncover spaces where the dispossession of self and, with it, the dismantling of the regime of self-care are possible"--
"Challenging the contemporary notion of "self-care" and the Western mania for "self-possession," The Comic Self proposes an alternate and less toxic model for human aspiration: a comic self. Campbell and Farred range across philosophy, literature, and contemporary comedy to uncover spaces where the dispossession of self and, with it, the dismantling of the regime of self-care are possible"--Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Timothy Campbell is professor of Italian at Cornell University. He is the author of Improper Life: Technology and Biopolitics from Heidegger to Agamben and Wireless Writing in the Age of Marconi (both from Minnesota). Grant Farred is author of several books, including An Essay for Ezra: Racial Terror in America, Martin Heidegger Saved My Life, and Only a Black Athlete Can Save Us Now (all from Minnesota).
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Contents Preface: The Art of Self-Dispossession Introduction: The Fallacy of Self-Possession 1. The Sunset of the Self 2. Renunciation and Refusal = Rupture and Rapture 3. Elide Tragedy 4. The Comic Self Is Not Comic 5. “I Think” 6. David Hume: The Master Critic of Identity 7. Temporality contra Cogito Ergo Sum 8. From a Terminal Walk to a Tightrope Walker 9. Don Quijote’s Comic Selves 10. The Unequal 11. Tragic Repetition Acknowledgments Notes Index
Contents Preface: The Art of Self-Dispossession Introduction: The Fallacy of Self-Possession 1. The Sunset of the Self 2. Renunciation and Refusal = Rupture and Rapture 3. Elide Tragedy 4. The Comic Self Is Not Comic 5. “I Think” 6. David Hume: The Master Critic of Identity 7. Temporality contra Cogito Ergo Sum 8. From a Terminal Walk to a Tightrope Walker 9. Don Quijote’s Comic Selves 10. The Unequal 11. Tragic Repetition Acknowledgments Notes Index
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