{"product_id":"breaking-intersubjectivity-a-critical-theory-of-counter-revolutionary-trauma-in-egypt-9781786610324","title":"Breaking Intersubjectivity: A Critical Theory of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrauma is commonly understood as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Yet, as this book explains, the concept of PTSD is problematic because it is rooted in a solipsist Philosophy of the Subject. Within such a philosophical perspective, it is not only impossible to account for trauma’s causality, but the traumatic ‘event’ is also prioritised over traumatic social and political structures as trauma is depoliticised as an (individual) internal cognitive object.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRooted in Frankfurt School critical theory, this book thus urges us to rethink the concept of trauma: trauma should not be understood as impaired subjectivity but rather as broken intersubjectivity. Hence, it not only presents a critique of the notion ‘PTSD’, but – drawing on the philosophies of Jurgen Habermas, Nancy Fraser, Rahel Jaeggi and Heideggerian trauma theory in particular - it argues that trauma entails the violent imposition of traumatic status subordination. In traumatic status subordination, intersubjective parity (the counterfactual presupposition of being treated as an equal human being) is so violently betrayed that the symbolic realm of the lifeworld collapses. As the lifeworld collapses, one suffers an atomized state of speechless disorientation, wherein the potential of creative collective becoming is destroyed. In this sense, human induced trauma should thus be understood as a political tool par excellence. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs this monograph indicates, traumatic status subordination was a tool which the Egyptian counter-revolutionary actors (consisting of the Egyptian military, and its temporary subsidiary the Muslim Brotherhood) used unsparingly as they attempted to put the revolutionary genie back into the bottle. Importantly, the Egyptian military not only sought to destroy the object of revolutionary politics, but rather the underlying existential structures of the possibility of its very existence as such. And thus, in the violent instrumental pursuit of economic and political power, the counter-revolution inflicted multileveled status subordination. It did so through a consistent tripartite structural mechanism: the infliction of grave (deadly) violence, the procedural colonisation and repressive juridification of the public sphere, and the acceleration of neoliberal economic rationalism. This not only accumulated in Sisi’s prisonification of society and his politics of death, but rather also threw activists ever deeper into an atomized state of demoralized silence as it destroyed the very potential of revolutionary and transformative becoming.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStructure of the Book\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFurther Remarks\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART 1. TOWARDS A CRITICAL THEORY OF TRAUMA AS BROKEN SUBJECTIVITY\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1. Trauma Studies and the Philosophy of the Subject\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTowards Intersubjectivity: Habermas’ Critique of the Philosophy of the Subject\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Positivist Revolution and the Emergence of PTSD\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCognitive Trauma Theory: Intersubjectivity Within\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLazarus Never Dies: Anti-Mimeticism in Post-structural and Political Trauma\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2. Towards a Critical Trauma Studies: Trauma as Intersubjective Alienation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn Heideggerian Trauma Theory: Struggles of Intersubjectivity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTraumatic Status Subordination: Nany Fraser\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTraumatic Alienation: Rahel Jaeggi\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTraumatic Instrumentality: Jurgen Habermas\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART 2. COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY TRAUMA IN EGYPT: INFLICTING TRAUMATIC STATUS SUBORDINATION\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Political Trauma in Egypt\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3. A Legacy of Traumatic Status Subordination in Egypt: From Nasser to Mubarak\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaldistribution: Neoliberal Economics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMisrecognition: Security State Violence\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDestroying Potentiality: Traumatic Alienation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4. Revolutionary Becoming: The Politics of Prefigurative Intersubjective Parity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRevolutionary Precursor: Kifaya\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEgypt’s 2011 Revolution: Politics of Intersubjective Parity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5. Supreme Council of Armed Forces: The Politics of Traumatic Status Subordination\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePolitical Proceduralism: Colonising the Political Public Sphere\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConstitutional Amendments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRepressive Juridification\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDirect Physical Force: Disorientation and Isolation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNeoliberal Economic Rationalism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6. Mohammed Morsi: The Politics of Traumatic Status Subordination\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePolitical Proceduralism: Morsi’s Struggle for Power\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDirect Physical Force: Turning Violence Inwards\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNeoliberal Economic Rationalism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7. The Military’s Deadly Return\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTamarrod and the June 30th Protests\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Rabaa Massacre\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8. Abdel Fattah el Sisi: The Politics of Traumatic Status Subordination\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePolitical Proceduralism: Sisi’s Colonisation of the Political Public Sphere\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRepressive Juridification of the Public Sphere\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDirect Physical Force\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNeoliberal Economic Rationalism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART 3. BREAKING THE REVOLUTIONARY LIFEWORLD AND POTENTIAL OF CREATIVE BECOMING\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterregnum: Prefigurative Intersubjective Parity in Egypt’s Revolutionary Public Sphere\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9. Breaking the Lifeworld: On the Existential Burden of Violence and Death\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeing against Death: Clashes and the Politics of Violence, Death, and Disorientation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMartyrs, Revolutionary Betrayal, and the Burden of Death\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10. Deepening Intersubjective Imparity: Turning Violence Inwards\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConspirational Victim Blaming and (Deadly) Revenge\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRabaa: Mass Murder and the Destruction of Potentiality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSocial Death\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Destruction of Hope\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExperiencing Existential Pain: Somatic Responses\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCoping With the Counter-Revolution: Depoliticization\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11. Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield International","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042470003031,"sku":"9781786610324","price":82.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781786610324.jpg?v=1750954280","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/breaking-intersubjectivity-a-critical-theory-of-counter-revolutionary-trauma-in-egypt-9781786610324","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}