By Pleshette DeArmitt

ISBN-10: 0823254437

ISBN-13: 9780823254439

ISBN-10: 0823254445

ISBN-13: 9780823254446

This publication goals to wrest the idea that of narcissism from its universal and pejorative meanings— egoism and vanity—by revealing its complexity and significance. DeArmitt undertakes the paintings of rehabilitating “narcissism” by means of patiently reexamining the phrases and figures which were linked to it, specially within the writings of Rousseau, Kristeva, and Derrida.

These thinkers are recognized for incisively exposing a undeniable (traditional) narcissism that has been operative in Western proposal and tradition and for revealing the violence it has wrought— from the hazards of amour-propre and the pathology of a collective “one’s personal” to the illusion of the sovereign One. still, every one of those thinkers denounces the naive denunciation of “narcissism,” because the hazards of a non-negotiation with narcissism are extra perilous. via rethinking “narcissism” as a fancy constitution of self-relation in the course of the different, the publication unearths the need of an im-possible self-love.

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