A provocative and unconventional call to dispossess the self of
itself Challenging the contemporary notion of "self-care" and the
Western mania for "self-possession," The Comic Self deploys
philosophical discourse and literary expression to propose an
alternate and less toxic model for human aspiration: a comic self.
Timothy Campbell and Grant Farred argue that the problem with the
"care of the self," from Foucault onward, is that it reinforces
identity, strengthening the relation between I and mine. This
assertion of self-possession raises a question vital for
understanding how we are to live with each other and ourselves: How
can you care for something that is truly not yours? The answer lies
in the unrepresentable comic self. Campbell and Farred range across
philosophy, literature, and contemporary comedy-engaging with
Socrates, Burke, Hume, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida,
Deleuze, and Levinas; Shakespeare, Cervantes, Woolf, Kafka, and
Pasolini; and Stephen Colbert, David Chappelle, and the cast of
Saturday Night Live. They uncover spaces where the dispossession of
self and, with it, the dismantling of the regime of self-care are
possible. Arguing that the comic self always keeps a precarious
closeness to the tragic self, while opposing the machinations of
capital endemic to the logic of self-possession, they provide a
powerful and provocative antidote to the tragic self that so
dominates the tenor of our times.
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