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

This study analyzes the pervasive rhetoric of victimhood in European culture since 1968. In a radically fragmented public sphere, individuals perceive themselves as dissociated from all others, while at the same time they feel similar to everyone else. Where genuine solidarity and communality is att...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Naqvi, Fatima (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2007.
Temas:
Social perception > Europe, Western.
Social psychology > Europe, Western.
Victims in literature.
Victims.
Survivors
Perception sociale > Europe de l'Ouest.
Psychologie sociale > Europe de l'Ouest.
Victimes dans la littérature.
Victimes.
Social & cultural anthropology.
Behavioural theory (Behaviourism)
Semantics.
Cultural studies.
Society.
Victims in literature
Social perception
Social psychology
Victims
Western Europe
Victim society > Victimhood
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Sacrificial Victims: Sigmund Freud, Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin
  • Politics of Indifference: Reň Girard and Peter Sloterdijk
  • Mediated Invisibility: Michael Haneke
  • Apocalyptic Cosmologies: Christoph Ransmayr and Anselm Kiefer
  • Melancholia Is Moot: Return to Freud
  • Impoverishment and Feminization: Friederike Mayr̲cker
  • Television's Foreign Voices: Elfriede Jelinek
  • A Domain of Sexual Struggle: Michel Houellebecq
  • The Quest for the Sacred: Giorgio Agamben.

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