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" Distillations : "
Mari Ruti.
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852174
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Ruti, Mari
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Distillations : : theory, ethics, affect /\ Mari Ruti.
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New York, NY :: Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc,, 2018.
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, ©2018
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1 online resource (viii, 243 pages)
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1501333801
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: 1501333828
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: 9781501333804
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150133378X
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1501333798
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9781501333781
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9781501333798
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Author's note; Introduction; Chapter 1: The posthumanist universal: Between precarity and rebellion; The crisis of multiculturalism; The ethical tensions of the face; The revival of universalism; The singular and the universal; The victim versus the immortal; Sara Ahmed's brick wall; But what is the universal?; Historically specific universalism; The radicalness of the universal; Breaking with tradition, culture, and custom; Chapter 2: The bad habits of critical theory: On the rigid rituals of thought; Slaying the humanist subject.
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Is the subject precarious or arrogant?Why do we want to kill the subject?; The rewards of antinormativity; Cleansing the plate; The failings of relationality; The problems of antinormativity; Posthumanist ethical aporias; The historicity of normative ethics; Badiou's ethics of the event; Chapter 3: Why some things matter more than others: A Lacanian explanation; The hermeneutics of suspicion; When satisfaction dissatisfies; When dissatisfaction satisfies; Lacan's ethics of desire; Two types of desire; The echo of the thing; Outshining the lures of capitalism; The Thing's code of ethics.
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Why is Socrates mistaken?The psychoanalytic partial object; The event of love: Where two dignities meet; Loving the lack in the other; The overvaluation of love; Chapter 6: Is suffering an event? Badiou between Nietzsche and Freud; Nietzschean forgetting; Releasing strangulated affects; The legitimacy of resentment; Clearing the slate; Remembering as a way to forget; Keeping suffering at a distance; Living next to trauma; Are we all traumatized?; Is suffering an event?; Can an event be planned?; Bibliography; Index.
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Why is there so much anxiety?Desire as a remedy to anxiety; Chapter 4: Rupture or resignation? Lacanian political theory versus affect theory; The event, the act; The sublimity of failure; The phallus as lack; Different levels of negation; Who can afford rupture?; Negotiating with power; What is agency?; Refusing to answer to comrade; What's good about feeling bad?; The inadequacies of grieving; Chapter 5: Socrates's mistake: Lacanians on love, Lacan on Agálmata; Romance versus love; Badiou's amorous event; Love's traumatic dimensions; Why love is not a good investment; Socrates's Agálmata.
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"Distilling into concise and focused formulations many of the main ideas that Mari Ruti has sought to articulate throughout her writing career, this book reflects on the general state of contemporary theory as it relates to posthumanist ethics, political resistance, subjectivity, agency, desire, and bad feelings such as anxiety. It offers a critique of progressive theory's tendency to advance extreme models of revolt that have little real-life applicability. The chapters move fluidly between several theoretical registers, the most obvious of these being continental philosophy, psychoanalytic theory, Butlerian ethics, affect theory, and queer theory. One of the central aims of Distillations is to explore the largely uncharted territory between psychoanalysis and affect theory, which are frequently pitted against each other as hopelessly incompatible, but which Ruti shows can be brought into a productive dialogue."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
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Affect (Psychology)
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Critical theory.
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Ethics.
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Psychoanalysis and philosophy.
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Affect (Psychology)
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Critical theory.
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Ethics.
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Psychoanalysis and philosophy.
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PSYCHOLOGY-- Reference.
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150.195
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BF175.4.P45
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