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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