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Book Synopsis Strangers to Ourselves by : Rachel Aviv
Download or read book Strangers to Ourselves written by Rachel Aviv and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestseller One of the top ten books of the year at The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, Vulture/New York magazine A best book of the year at Los Angeles Times, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Bookforum, The New Yorker, Vogue, Kirkus The acclaimed, award-winning New Yorker writer Rachel Aviv offers a groundbreaking exploration of mental illness and the mind, and illuminates the startling connections between diagnosis and identity. Strangers to Ourselves poses fundamental questions about how we understand ourselves in periods of crisis and distress. Drawing on deep, original reporting as well as unpublished journals and memoirs, Rachel Aviv writes about people who have come up against the limits of psychiatric explanations for who they are. She follows an Indian woman celebrated as a saint who lives in healing temples in Kerala; an incarcerated mother vying for her children’s forgiveness after recovering from psychosis; a man who devotes his life to seeking revenge upon his psychoanalysts; and an affluent young woman who, after a decade of defining herself through her diagnosis, decides to go off her meds because she doesn’t know who she is without them. Animated by a profound sense of empathy, Aviv’s gripping exploration is refracted through her own account of living in a hospital ward at the age of six and meeting a fellow patient with whom her life runs parallel—until it no longer does. Aviv asks how the stories we tell about mental disorders shape their course in our lives—and our identities, too. Challenging the way we understand and talk about illness, her account is a testament to the porousness and resilience of the mind.
Book Synopsis Strangers to Ourselves by : Julia Kristeva
Download or read book Strangers to Ourselves written by Julia Kristeva and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is concerned with the notion of the stranger—the foreigner, outsider, or alien in a country and society not their own—as well as the notion of strangeness within the self, a person’s deep sense of being, as distinct from outside appearance and their conscious idea of self. Julia Kristeva begins with the personal and moves outward by examining world literature and philosophy. She discusses the foreigner in Greek tragedy, in the Bible, and in the literature of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Enlightenment, and the twentieth century. By considering the legal status of foreigners throughout history, Kristeva offers a different perspective on our own civilization.
Book Synopsis Strangers to Ourselves by : Timothy D. Wilson
Download or read book Strangers to Ourselves written by Timothy D. Wilson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2004-05-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Know thyself," a precept as old as Socrates, is still good advice. But is introspection the best path to self-knowledge? Wilson makes the case for better ways of discovering our unconscious selves. If you want to know who you are or what you feel or what you're like, Wilson advises, pay attention to what you actually do and what other people think about you. Showing us an unconscious more powerful than Freud's, and even more pervasive in our daily life, Strangers to Ourselves marks a revolution in how we know ourselves.
Book Synopsis Strangers to Ourselves by : Julia Kristeva
Download or read book Strangers to Ourselves written by Julia Kristeva and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kristeva begins with the personal and moves outward by examining world literature and philosophy. She discusses the foreigner in Greek tragedy, in the Bible, and in the literature of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Enlightenment, and the twentieth century.
Book Synopsis Strangers to Themselves: The Byzantine Outsider by : Dion C. Smythe
Download or read book Strangers to Themselves: The Byzantine Outsider written by Dion C. Smythe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: March 1998 saw Byzantinists gathering together at the University of Sussex in Brighton, for the annual symposium held by the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies. Their aim was to consider the question of the 'Byzantine outsider'. Some categories of outsiders appear clear and simple: those marked out by class, race, sex, religion. But these categories are not universals. Today, historians of all periods are examining the ways in which we analyse the divisions in our societies, which can determine how we look at societies in the past. There is no consensus on who forms the 'outsider class' in modern society; it should come as no surprise that there was no consensus in Byzantium as to who the outsiders were, what they had done to deserve that status, and what the result of their attaining it should have been. The papers in this collection, drawn from the large number presented at the XXXII Spring Symposium, continue the debate about the idea of the 'Byzantine outsider'. The scholars within - theologians, historians, literary critics and art historians - present differing approaches to different aspects of the problem. The volume does not aim to have the 'last word', but rather to provoke debate and to open the field. Any examination of society that uses the concept of the outsider has implicitly within it a concept of the 'insider'. By looking at those on the margins it becomes easier to see who were - or at least thought they were - on the inside.
Book Synopsis Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals by : Christa Davis Acampora
Download or read book Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals written by Christa Davis Acampora and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2006 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes essays that were commissioned for the volume, this collection showcases definitive works that have shaped Nietzsche studies alongside new works of interest to students and experts alike. Suitable for the classroom and advanced research, it provides an introduction, annotated bibliography, and index.
Book Synopsis Strangers, Gods, and Monsters by : Richard Kearney
Download or read book Strangers, Gods, and Monsters written by Richard Kearney and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book Synopsis Nationality Between Poststructuralism and Postcolonial Theory by : P. Leonard
Download or read book Nationality Between Poststructuralism and Postcolonial Theory written by P. Leonard and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-10-28 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nationality Between Poststructuralism and Postcolonial Theory: A New Cosmopolitanism examines and interrogates recent work on nationality in literal, critical and cultural theory. Focusing on the work of Derrida, Deleuze and Guattari, Kristeva, Spivak, and Bhabha, it explores how, for these theorists, the concepts of community, the new International, nomadism, deterritorialization, cosmopolitanism, hospitality, the native informant, hybridity and postcolonial agency can provoke a different understanding of national identity.
Download or read book Refugees Now written by Kelly Oliver and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-04-03 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important new book explores the contemporary refugee crisis and the untold realities and experiences of refugees themselves. A team of top scholars offer a critical and necessary diagnosis of the challenges, complexities, and contradictions impacting our philosophical approaches to the contemporary figure of the refugee.
Book Synopsis Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion.v.10 by : Joanne Marie Greer
Download or read book Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion.v.10 written by Joanne Marie Greer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Various articles are presented covering psychological, sociological and cross-cultural topics or relevance to religious/spiritual researchers and academics.
Book Synopsis Sin, Pride & Self-Acceptance by : Terry D. Cooper
Download or read book Sin, Pride & Self-Acceptance written by Terry D. Cooper and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2003-06-05 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With theological and psychological insight, Terry D. Cooper demonstrates how the Christian doctrine of a sinful and fallen humanity sheds light on the centuries-long debate: "What is wrong with humanity--pride or lack of self-esteem?"
Book Synopsis Strangers to Themselves by : RACHEL. AVIV
Download or read book Strangers to Themselves written by RACHEL. AVIV and published by Harvill Secker. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Betwixt and Between Liminality and Marginality by : Zohar Hadromi-Allouche
Download or read book Betwixt and Between Liminality and Marginality written by Zohar Hadromi-Allouche and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers an interdisciplinary re-thinking about what it means to be "the marginal" within society. Using a supple notion of liminality as its framework, this book concurrently challenges Turner's symbolic anthropology, while celebrating its continued influence and recasting into an interdisciplinary landscape.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche by : Bernd Magnus
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche written by Bernd Magnus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-26 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The significance of Friedrich Nietzsche for twentieth century culture is now no longer a matter of dispute. He was quite simply one of the most influential of modern thinkers. The opening essay of this 1996 Companion provides a chronologically organised introduction to and summary of Nietzsche's published works, while also providing an overview of their basic themes and concerns. It is followed by three essays on the appropriation and misappropriation of his writings, and a group of essays exploring the nature of Nietzsche's philosophy and its relation to the modern and post-modern world. The final contributions consider Nietzsche's influence on the twentieth century in Europe, the USA, and Asia. New readers and non-specialists will find this the most convenient, accessible guide to Nietzsche currently available. Advanced students and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of Nietzsche.
Book Synopsis Tolerating Strangers in Intolerant Times by : Roger Kennedy
Download or read book Tolerating Strangers in Intolerant Times written by Roger Kennedy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this interdisciplinary and wide-ranging study, Roger Kennedy looks at the roots of tolerance and intolerance as well as the role of the stranger and strangeness in provoking basic fears about our identity. He argues that a fear of a loss of attachment to one’s home might account for many prejudiced and intolerant attitudes to refugees and migrants; that basic fears about being displaced by so-called ‘strangers’ from our precious and precarious sense of a psychic home can tear communities apart, as well as lead to discrimination against those who appear to be different. Present day intolerance includes fears about the ‘hordes’ of immigrants confused with realistic fears about terrorist attacks, populist fears about loss of cultural integrity and with it a sense of powerlessness, and fearful debates about such basics as truth, including the so-called ‘post truth’ issue. Such fears, as explored in the book, mirror old arguments going back centuries to the early enlightenment thinkers and even before, when the parameters of discussion about tolerance were mainly around religious tolerance. There is urgency about addressing these kinds of issue once more at a time when the ‘ground rules’ of what makes for a civilized society seem to be under threat. Kennedy argues that society needs a ‘tolerance process’, in which critical thinking and respectful judgment can take place in an atmosphere of debate and reasonably open communication, when issues around what can and cannot be tolerated about different beliefs, practices and attitudes in people in our own and other cultures, are examined and debated. Tolerating Strangers in Intolerant Times, with the help of psychoanalytic, literary, social and political thinking, looks at what such a tolerance process could look like in a world increasingly prone to intolerance and prejudice. It will appeal to psychoanalysts as well as scholars of politics and philosophy.
Book Synopsis New Forms of Revolt by : Sarah K. Hansen
Download or read book New Forms of Revolt written by Sarah K. Hansen and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2017-05-24 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays explore the significance of Julia Kristevas concept of intimate revolt for social and political philosophy. Over the last twenty years, French philosopher, psychoanalyst, and novelist Julia Kristeva has explored how global crises threaten peoples ability to revolt. In a context of widespread war, deepening poverty, environmental catastrophes, and rising fundamentalisms, she argues that a revival of inner psychic experience is necessary and empowering. Intimate revolt has become a central concept in Kristevas critical repertoire, framing and permeating her understanding of power, meaning, and identity. New Forms of Revolt brings together ten essays on this aspect of Kristevas work, addressing contemporary social and political issues like immigration and cross-cultural encounters, colonial and postcolonial imaginations, racism and artistic representation, healthcare and social justice, the spectacle of global capitalism, and new media. This book is important for Kristeva scholars, as it expands and deepens areas of her work that have been dismissed by her critics. Further, it links Kristevas philosophy to historical philosophers, contemporaries, and how her philosophy applies to pressing problems today. All of the essays are well done and valuable. Danielle Poe, author of Maternal Activism: Mothers Confronting Injustice
Book Synopsis Ethics, Politics, and Difference in Julia Kristeva's Writing by : Kelly Oliver
Download or read book Ethics, Politics, and Difference in Julia Kristeva's Writing written by Kelly Oliver and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
