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Author Nissim-Sabat, Marilyn, 1938-

Title Neither victim nor survivor : thinking toward a new humanity / Marilyn Nissim-Sabat.

Publication Info. Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 207 pages)
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents What is a victim? -- Freud, gender, and the epigenesis of morality: a critique -- The crisis in psychoanalysis: resolution through Husserlian phenomenology and feminism -- Addictions, akrasia, and self psychology: a Socratic and psychoanalytic view of akrasia as victim blaming -- Fanon, phenomenology, and the decentering of philosophy: Lewis Gordon's Her majesty's other children: sketches of racism from a neocolonial age -- Race and culture: victim blaming in psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis -- Autonomy, empathy, and transcendence in Sophocles' Antigone: a phenomenological perspective, with an epilogue: on Lacan's Antigone -- Neither victim nor survivor be: who is Beloved's baby?
Summary In Neither Victim nor Survivor: Thinking toward a New Humanity, Marilyn Nissim-Sabat offers a comprehensive critique of the interrelated concepts of "victim" and "survivor" as they have been ideologically distorted in Western thought. Framed by thephenomenological perspective of Edmund Husserl, Nissim-Sabat carries out her argument through an intense engagement with current scholarly work on Toni Morrison's Beloved, Sophocles' Antigone, akrasia, psychoanalysis, critical race theory, feminist philosophy of science, and Marxism. Nissim-Sabat ultimately proposes that a new consciousness, enable.
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Subject Victims.
Victims.
Victims in literature.
Victims in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Neither victim nor survivor Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, c2009. 9780739128220 (cloth : alk. paper) (DLC) 2009013050
ISBN 9780739139288 ebook
0739139282
9780739128220 cloth alkaline paper
0739128221 cloth alkaline paper