1st Edition
Respect, Plurality, and Prejudice A Psychoanalytical and Philosophical Enquiry into the Dynamics of Social Exclusion and Discrimination
By Lene Auestad
Copyright 2015
384 Pages
by
Routledge
384 Pages
by
Routledge
384 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book helps us understand the current resurgence of social prejudice against ethnic minority groups, the logics of scapegoating and the resulting violence. Our time is characterised by a growth in expressed hostility and violence towards people who are perceived as 'others'. Hatred towards and discrimination against minorities is on the rise. This book presents a new understanding of... Read more
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE Subjectivity and absence: prejudice as a psychosocial theme CHAPTER TWO Primary process logic and prejudice CHAPTER THREE Contagion, conflict, and ambivalence: prejudice as transfer of shame and guiltCHAPTER FOUR Injurious speech and frames of mind CHAPTER FIVE Basic trust and alienation, or "we have nothing to reproach ourselves with"CHAPTER SIX Adaptation, containment, experience: Adorno, psychoanalytic developments, and the potential for social critiqueCHAPTER SEVEN Perspectivism and plurality: Arendt's contribution to thinking about respect and prejudiceCHAPTER EIGHT Responsibility and the unconscious: sketches for a psychoanalytically informed ethicsNOTES REFERENCES INDEX
Biography
Lene Auestad
