Right to Narcissism

A Case for an Im-possible Self-love

AvPleshette DeArmitt

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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This book aims to wrest the concept of narcissism from its common and pejorative meanings— egoism and vanity—by revealing its complexity and importance. DeArmitt undertakes the work of rehabilitating "narcissism" by patiently reexamining the terms and figures that have been associated with it, especially in the writings of Rousseau, Kristeva, and Derrida.These thinkers are known for incisively exposing a certain (traditional) narcissism that has been operative in Western thought and culture and for revealing the violence it has wrought— from the dangers of amour-propre and the pathology of a collective "one's own" to the phantasm of the sovereign One. Nonetheless, each of these thinkers denounces the naive denunciation of "narcissism," as the dangers of a non-negotiation with narcissism are more perilous. By rethinking "narcissism" as a complex structure of self-relation through the Other, the book reveals the necessity of an im-possible self-love.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-11-11
Mått:152 x 229 x 17 mm
Vikt:496 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Fordham University Press
ISBN:9780823254439

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Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion

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Pleshette DeArmitt is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis. She is co-editor of Sarah Kofman's Corpus.

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"A fascinating book... highly recommend." -Choice "Deftly working at the intersection of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and literature, DeArmitt makes a fascinating case for self-love, or narcissism. With subtle and incisive readings of Rousseau, Kristeva and Derrida, DeArmitt shows the necessity for rethinking narcissism as an ethics of otherness." -- -Kelly Oliver Vanderbilt University "Pleshette DeArmitt's gem of a book, The Right to Narcissism, makes a cogent, timely, and well-crafted case in support of reclaiming the concept of narcissism from the pejorative meanings with which it has most commonly been associated for much of the modern era." -- -Elissa Marder Emory University

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments Introduction: The Right to Narcissism? Part I. Rousseau: The Passions of Narcissus Introduction: Another Morality Tale? 1. Man's Double Birth 2. Regarding Self-Love Anew Part II. Kristeva: The Rebirth of Narcissus Introduction: Self-Love-Beyond Sin, Symptoms, and Sublime Values 3. Reconceiving Freud's Narcissus 4. Transference, or Amorous Dynamics Part III. Derrida: The Mourning of Narcissus Introduction: The Very Concept of Narcissism 5. The Eye of Narcissus 6. The Ear of Echo Afterword: By What Right? Notes Bibliography