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The Comic Self - Toward Dispossession (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,154
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The Comic Self - Toward Dispossession (Hardcover): Timothy C. Campbell, Grant Farred

The Comic Self - Toward Dispossession (Hardcover)

Timothy C. Campbell, Grant Farred

Series: Thinking Theory

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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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Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Thinking Theory
Release date: July 2023
First published: 2023
Authors: Timothy C. Campbell • Grant Farred
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 978-1-5179-1491-2
Categories: Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General
Books > Philosophy > General
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LSN: 1-5179-1491-4
Barcode: 9781517914912

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