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Record Nr.

UNINA9910860866803321

Autore

Campbell Timothy C

Titolo

The Comic Self : Toward Dispossession

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2023

©2023

ISBN

1-4529-6880-2

1-4529-6881-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (153 pages)

Collana

Thinking Theory Series

Altri autori (Persone)

FarredGrant

Disciplina

158.1

Soggetti

Self-perception

Self-evaluation

Comedy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface: The Art of Self-Dispossession -- Introduction: The Fallacy of Self-Possession -- Chapter 1. The Sunset of the Self -- Chapter 2. Renunciation and Refusal = Rupture and Rapture -- Chapter 3. Elide Tragedy -- Chapter 4. The Comic Self Is Not Comic -- Chapter 5. "I Think" -- Chapter 6. David Hume: The Master Critic of Identity -- Chapter 7. Temporality contra Cogito Ergo Sum -- Chapter 8. From a Terminal Walk to a Tightrope Walker -- Chapter 9. Don Quijote's Comic Selves -- Chapter 10. The Unequal -- Chapter 11. Tragic Repetition -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"Challenging the contemporary notion of "self-care" and the Western mania for "self-possession," The Comic Self proposes an alternate and less toxic model for human aspiration: a comic self. Campbell and Farred range across philosophy, literature, and contemporary comedy to uncover spaces where the dispossession of self and, with it, the dismantling of the regime of self-care are possible"--