The literary and cultural rhetoric of victimhood : Western Europe, 1970-2005

The literary and cultural rhetoric of victimhood Western Europe, 1970-2005

In a series of paradigmatic readings of René Girard, Peter Sloterdijk, Michael Haneke, Anselm Kiefer, Michel Houellebecq, Elfriede Jelinek, Giorgio Agamben, Naqvi examines the current fascination with victimhood and the desire for victim status.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Naqvi, Fatima (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Palgrave Macmillan 2007.
Edición:1st ed. 2007.
Materias:
Social perception > Europe, Western.
Victims.
Victims in literature.
Social psychology > Europe, Western.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; A Prefatory Note on Translations; Acknowledgments; Introduction Sacrificial Victims: Sigmund Freud, Theodor Adorno, and Max Horkheimer; 1 Politics of Indifference: René Girard and Peter Sloterdijk; 2 Mediated Invisibility: Michael Haneke; 3 Apocalyptic Cosmologies: Christoph Ransmayr and Anselm Kiefer; 4 Mourning is Moot: A Brief Reprise of Freud; 5 Feminization and Impoverishment: Friederike Mayröcker; 6 The Domain of Sexual Struggle: Michel Houellebecq; 7 Cognitive Dissonances: Elfriede Jelinek; Notes; Works Cited; Index of Names

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