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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811079003321

Autore

Naqvi Fatima

Titolo

The literary and cultural rhetoric of victimhood : Western Europe, 1970-2005 / / by Fatima Naqvi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

ISBN

1-281-36339-1

9786611363390

0-230-60347-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2007.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Disciplina

302/.12

Soggetti

Social perception - Europe, Western

Victims

Victims in literature

Social psychology - Europe, Western

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.