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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822418303321

Autore

DeArmitt Pleshette <1967->

Titolo

The right to narcissism [[electronic resource] ] : a case for an im-possible self-love / / Pleshette DeArmitt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, 2014

ISBN

0-8232-5445-3

0-8232-5444-5

0-8232-5447-X

0-8232-5446-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (206 p.)

Disciplina

128

Soggetti

Narcissism

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

pt. I. Rousseau : the passions of Narcissus -- pt. II. Kristeva : the rebirth of Narcissus -- pt. III. Derrida : the mourning of Narcissus.

Sommario/riassunto

This book aims to wrest the concept of narcissism from its common and pejorative meanings— egoism and vanity—by revealing its complexity and importance. DeArmitt undertakes the work of rehabilitating “narcissism” by patiently reexamining the terms and figures that have been associated with it, especially in the writings of Rousseau, Kristeva, and Derrida.These thinkers are known for incisively exposing a certain (traditional) narcissism that has been operative in Western thought and culture and for revealing the violence it has wrought— from the dangers of amour-propre and the pathology of a collective “one’s own” to the phantasm of the sovereign One. Nonetheless, each of these thinkers denounces the naive denunciation of “narcissism,” as the dangers of a non-negotiation with narcissism are more perilous. By rethinking “narcissism” as a complex structure of self-relation through the Other, the book reveals the necessity of an im-possible self-love.