Neither Victim nor Survivor
Thinking toward a New Humanity- Authors:
- Publisher:
- 2009
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 the phenomenological 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, enabled by the phenomenological attitude, of the way in which ideological distortion of the concepts of 'victim' and 'survivor' helps to perpetuate victimization will empower us to find ways to end victimization and its anti-human consequences. The book's interdisciplinary approach will make it appealing to a broad range of students and scholars alike.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2009
- ISBN-Print
- 978-0-7391-2822-0
- ISBN-Online
- 978-0-7391-3928-8
- Publisher
- Lexington, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 208
- Product type
- Book Titles
Table of contents
- Contents No access
- Foreword No access
- Acknowledgments No access
- Introduction No access
- Chapter 01. What is a Victim? No access Pages 1 - 20
- Chapter 02. Freud, Gender, and the Epigenesis of Morality: A Critique No access Pages 21 - 42
- Chapter 03. The Crisis in Psychoanalysis: Resolution through Husserlian Phenomenology and Feminism No access Pages 43 - 80
- Chapter 04. Addictions, Akrasia, and Self Psychology: A Socratic and Psychoanalytic View of Akrasia as Victim Blaming No access Pages 81 - 96
- Chapter 05. Fanon, Phenomenology, and the Decentering of Philosophy: Lewis R. Gordon’s Her Majesty’s Other Children: Sketches of Racism from a Neocolonial Age No access Pages 97 - 110
- Chapter 06. Race and Culture: Victim Blaming in Psychology, Psychiatry, and Psychoanalysis No access Pages 111 - 128
- Chapter 07. Autonomy, Empathy, and Transcendence in Sophocles’ Antigone: A Phenomenological Perspective, with an Epilogue: On Lacan’s Antigone No access Pages 129 - 162
- Chapter 08. Neither Victim nor Survivor Be: Who is Beloved’s Baby? No access Pages 163 - 194
- Bibliography No access Pages 195 - 202
- Index No access Pages 203 - 208





