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Taylor & Francis Ltd Beyond Doer and Done to
Book SynopsisIn Beyond Doer and Done To, Jessica Benjamin, author of the path-breaking Bonds of Love, expands her theory of mutual recognition and its breakdown into the complementarity of doer and done to. Her innovative theory charts the growth of the Third in early development through the movement between recognition and breakdown, and shows how it parallels the enactments in the psychoanalytic relationship. Benjamin's recognition theory illuminates the radical potential of acknowledgment in healing both individual and social trauma, in creating relational repair in the transformational space of thirdness. Benjamin's unique formulations of intersubjectivity make essential reading for both psychoanalytic therapists and theorists in the humanities and social sciences.Trade Review"In this extraordinary book Jessica Benjamin reveals the paradoxical process of thirdness as the growth of intersubjectivity through mutual survival of enacted breakdowns. The choreography of ‘doer and done to’ makes way for a different kind of shared experience, creating and recreating the Third. This book must be read to grasp its singular importance, because it evokes the experience it clarifies: in trying to be good we fail; in accepting failure we go beyond it. Benjamin synthesizes our biggest insights about intersubjectivity and recognition with our most personal intimate experiences of being connected to another human being, moving psychoanalytic theory into what it has always hoped to be. Read this book, it is not to be missed!"—Philip M. Bromberg, author of The Shadow of the Tsunami: and the Growth of the Relational Mind"In her brilliant new book, Jessica Benjamin updates her early groundbreaking analysis of intersubjectivity, recognition, and mother-child development. As a result, Beyond Doer and Done To is one of the most powerful and robust accounts of the recognition process ever written. Discussing both individual and public trauma, Benjamin articulates a compelling distinction between the failed witness and the acknowledging witness, crucial to understanding our troubled times. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in recognition theory, trauma theory, and recent trends in psychoanalysis."-Kelly Oliver, author of Witnessing: Beyond Recognition, and most recently, Carceral Humanitarianism: Logics of Refugee Detention"Jessica Benjamin, one of the most original contemporary psychoanalytic thinkers brilliantly illustrates what is most alive in psychoanalysis today: what it means to think and work using the concept of intersubjectivity. I strongly recommend Beyond Doer and Done To not only to every psychoanalyst and psychotherapist but to all who are intrigued by the question of how a mind is born, and how it grows when it gets in touch with another mind."—Giuseppe Civitarese, author of Truth and the Unconscious in Psychoanalysis"Jessica Benjamin has pushed the boundaries of psychoanalysis beyond the intrapsychic realm into a much richer understanding of the analytic intersubjective interaction and its embeddedness in the broader social world. Benjamin’s unique articulation of the moral Third offers a compelling vision of how we might heal from the complicated legacies of the past, both individual and historical trauma, and meet the challenges of the 21st century."—Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Research Chair in Historical Trauma and Transformation, Stellenbosch University, and author of A Human Being Died That Night"Among the most influential and most widely read of psychoanalytic writers, Benjamin in her latest work perfects her brilliant, trail-blazing articulation of intersubjective recognition theory. In Beyond Doer and Done To she elucidates the relations of complementarity, acknowledgment, rhythmicity, the Third, mutual vulnerability, doer-done to relations, trauma, dissociation and witnessing. She has provided a theory of recognition and its vicissitudes, recognition between mothers and infants, therapeutic healing recognition, and recognition relations among couples, families, and even the warring peoples of the world. This magnificent interdisciplinary synthesis breaks through intellectual barriers and will inspire generations of psychotherapists, psychologists, philosophers, feminists, social theorists, and activists."—Lewis Aron, Ph.D., Director, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis"In this extraordinary book Jessica Benjamin reveals the paradoxical process of thirdness as the growth of intersubjectivity through mutual survival of enacted breakdowns. The choreography of "doer and done to" makes way for a different kind of shared experience, creating and recreating the Third. This book must be read to grasp its singular importance, because it evokes the experience it clarifies: In trying to be good we fail; in accepting failure we go beyond it. Benjamin synthesizes our biggest insights about intersubjectivity and recognition with our most personal intimate experiences of being connected to another human being, moving psychoanalytic theory into what it has always hoped to be. Read this book, it is not to be missed!"-Philip M. Bromberg, author of The Shadow of the Tsunami: and the Growth of the Relational Mind."In her brilliant new book, Jessica Benjamin updates her early groundbreaking analysis of intersubjectivity, recognition, and mother-child development. As a result, Beyond Doer and Done To is one of the most powerful and robust accounts of the recognition process ever written. Discussing both individual and public trauma, Benjamin articulates a compelling distinction between the failed witness and the acknowledging witness, crucial to understanding our troubled times. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in recognition theory, trauma theory, and recent trends in psychoanalysis."-Kelly Oliver, author of Witnessing: Beyond Recognition, and most recently, Carceral Humanitarianism: Logics of Refugee Detention"Jessica Benjamin, one of the most original contemporary psychoanalytic thinkers brilliantly illustrates what is most alive in psychoanalysis today: what it means to think and work using the concept of intersubjectivity. I strongly recommend Beyond Doer and Done To not only to every psychoanalyst and psychotherapist but to all who are intrigued by the question of how a mind is born, and how it grows when gets in touch with another mind."-Giuseppe Civitarese, author of Truth and the Unconscious in Psychoanalysis."Jessica Benjamin has pushed the boundaries of psychoanalysis beyond the intrapsychic realm into a much richer understanding of the analytic intersubjective interaction and its embeddedness in the broader social world. Benjamin’s unique articulation of the moral Third offers a compelling vision of how we might heal from the complicated legacies of the past, both individual and historical trauma, and meet the challenges of the 21st century."-Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Research Chair in Historical Trauma and Transformation, Stellenbosch University and author of A Human Being Died That Night . "Among the most influential and most widely read of psychoanalytic writers, Benjamin in her latest work perfects her brilliant, trail-blazing articulation of intersubjective recognition theory. In Beyond Doer a d Done To she elucidates the relations of complementarity, acknowledgment, rhythmicity, The Third, mutual vulnerability, doer-done to relations, trauma, dissociation and witnessing. She has provided a theory of recognition and its vicissitudes, recognition between mothers and infants, therapeutic healing recognition, and recognition relations among couples, families, and even the warring peoples of the world. This magnificent interdisciplinary synthesis breaks through intellectual barriers and will inspire generations of psychotherapists, psychologists, philosophers, feminists, social theorists, activists."-Lewis Aron, Ph.D. is the Director, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis.Table of ContentsIntroduction: recognition, intersubjectivity and the Third1. Beyond doer and done to: an intersubjective view of thirdness2. Our appointment in Thebes: acknowledgment, the failed witness and fear of harming3. Transformations in thirdness: mutual recognition, vulnerability and asymmetryI. You’ve come a long way babyII. Responsibility, vulnerability and the analyst’s surrender to change 4. An Other take on the riddle of sex: excess, affect and gender complementarity5. Paradox and play: the uses of enactmentI. The paradox is the thingII. Enactment, play and the workIII. Putting music and lyrics together6. Playing at the edge: negation, recognition and the lawful worldI. Beginning with No…and YesII. Trauma, violence and recognition of the Other (Me)7. Beyond "Only one can live": witnessing, acknowledgment and the moral Third
£44.64
University of Minnesota Press Carceral Humanitarianism: Logics of Refugee
Book SynopsisCoopted by military operations, humanitarianism has never been neutral. Rather than welcoming refugees, host countries assess the relative risks of taking them in versus turning them away, using a risk-benefit analysis that often reduces refugees to collateral damage in proxy wars fought in the war on terrorism. Carceral Humanitarianism testifies that humanitarian aid and human rights discourse are always political and partisan. Forerunners is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital works. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.Trade Review"Kelly Oliver’s concise book brings a necessary and provocative philosophical appraisal of humanitarianism, focused on the treatment of refugees and the realities of migrant detention centers in the context of the ‘war on terror’. I highly recommend this concise text for critical geographers of borders and migration as well as for all kinds of activist endeavors advocating for freedom of movement and anti-war positions." —Antipode
£9.00
Rowman & Littlefield Reviving the Social Compact: Inclusive
Book SynopsisNaomi Zack’s Reviving the Social Compact: Inclusive Citizenship in an Age of Extreme Politics addresses current political and social upheaval and distress with new concepts for the relationship between citizens and government. Politics has become turbo-charged as a form of agonistic contest where candidates and the public become more focused on winning than on governing or holding the government accountable for the benefit of the people. This failure of the government to fulfill its part of the social contract calls for a new social compact wherein citizens as a collective whole make long-term resolutions outside of government institutions. Analyzing present and evolving events, Zack reveals how race has exceeded intersection after formal rights have failed to correct ongoing discrimination; how class is no longer based on real life interests and has been manufactured and manipulated for political contest; how women have made spectacular progress but how the fame of elite women has left out poor, non-white women, transgender people, and sex workers; how natural disasters have not been (and perhaps cannot be) adequately prepared for or responded to by government; how environmental preservation becomes politicized; how homelessness could be fixed through capitalism; and how immigration reform has pivoted from inclusion to expulsion and why hospitality is an important civic virtue. Reviving the Social Compact is a call for good citizenship. Voting is the first step—because in a divided two-party system, a change from one party to the other is tantamount to revolution—and a new understanding of the social compact can lead to the stable civic life we need at this time.Trade ReviewA timely analysis of the contemporary political scene combined with a prescription for revitalizing the social compact that underlies it. This is political philosophy at its best! -- James P. Sterba, professor, University of Notre DameWhat happens when government breaks the social contract? In this insightful and compelling book, Zack answers that residents must step up to fill the void with an inclusive social compact to buffer the disasters of a corrupt and morally bankrupt government. She powerfully demonstrates that current conceptions of race, class, and gender do not adequately represent the reality on the ground. Deftly moving between philosophical discourse and current events, Zack’s analysis pushes up against the limits of identity politics, and conceptions of the good citizen, to illuminate the way forward. -- Kelly Oliver, author of Carceral Humanitarianism: Logics of Refugee Detention and Hunting Girls: Sexual Violence from The Hunger Games to Campus Rape.Zack’s book addresses a critical moral issue in modern American society: how social contracts and social compacts function in the presence of the changing dynamics of political systems and political parties, in terms of its impact on the issues of race, class, disasters, terrorism and immigration. Where social contracts become outdated or fail, then the more informal social compacts in society become critical to the continued and effective functioning of a liberal democratic society. This is an important book with a message that needs to be heard and understood by those with both formal and informal voices, who care about living in a moral society. -- David Etkin, York University, author of Disaster Theory: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Concepts and CausesSupercharged politics prevents government from meeting its obligations to the people according to the social contract and endangers our democracy. Naomi Zack’s brilliant book argues that we can save it if we reclaim the almost forgotten idea that it depends on a social compact among the people that is prior to government and requires that they work independently of government to create a culture of inclusion. -- Bernard Boxill, professor emeritus, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillTable of ContentsForeword by Ruth Sample Author’s Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction Part I – Politics, Race, Class, and Feminism 1. Turbo-Charged Politics 2. The Junction of Race 3. The Political Creation of Class 4. The Amazing Success of Feminism Part II –– The Need for the Social Compact 5. The Social Contract and the Social Compact 6. Natural Disaster in Society 7. Unnatural Disaster in Nature 8. Homelessness and Monetization 9. Immigration and Expulsion Conclusion Index
£23.75
Rowman & Littlefield Reviving the Social Compact: Inclusive
Book SynopsisNaomi Zack’s Reviving the Social Compact: Inclusive Citizenship in an Age of Extreme Politics addresses current political and social upheaval and distress with new concepts for the relationship between citizens and government. Politics has become turbo-charged as a form of agonistic contest where candidates and the public become more focused on winning than on governing or holding the government accountable for the benefit of the people. This failure of the government to fulfill its part of the social contract calls for a new social compact wherein citizens as a collective whole make long-term resolutions outside of government institutions. Analyzing present and evolving events, Zack reveals how race has exceeded intersection after formal rights have failed to correct ongoing discrimination; how class is no longer based on real life interests and has been manufactured and manipulated for political contest; how women have made spectacular progress but how the fame of elite women has left out poor, non-white women, transgender people, and sex workers; how natural disasters have not been (and perhaps cannot be) adequately prepared for or responded to by government; how environmental preservation becomes politicized; how homelessness could be fixed through capitalism; and how immigration reform has pivoted from inclusion to expulsion and why hospitality is an important civic virtue. Reviving the Social Compact is a call for good citizenship. Voting is the first step—because in a divided two-party system, a change from one party to the other is tantamount to revolution—and a new understanding of the social compact can lead to the stable civic life we need at this time.Trade ReviewA timely analysis of the contemporary political scene combined with a prescription for revitalizing the social compact that underlies it. This is political philosophy at its best! -- James P. Sterba, professor, University of Notre DameWhat happens when government breaks the social contract? In this insightful and compelling book, Zack answers that residents must step up to fill the void with an inclusive social compact to buffer the disasters of a corrupt and morally bankrupt government. She powerfully demonstrates that current conceptions of race, class, and gender do not adequately represent the reality on the ground. Deftly moving between philosophical discourse and current events, Zack’s analysis pushes up against the limits of identity politics, and conceptions of the good citizen, to illuminate the way forward. -- Kelly Oliver, author of Carceral Humanitarianism: Logics of Refugee Detention and Hunting Girls: Sexual Violence from The Hunger Games to Campus Rape.Zack’s book addresses a critical moral issue in modern American society: how social contracts and social compacts function in the presence of the changing dynamics of political systems and political parties, in terms of its impact on the issues of race, class, disasters, terrorism and immigration. Where social contracts become outdated or fail, then the more informal social compacts in society become critical to the continued and effective functioning of a liberal democratic society. This is an important book with a message that needs to be heard and understood by those with both formal and informal voices, who care about living in a moral society. -- David Etkin, York University, author of Disaster Theory: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Concepts and CausesSupercharged politics prevents government from meeting its obligations to the people according to the social contract and endangers our democracy. Naomi Zack’s brilliant book argues that we can save it if we reclaim the almost forgotten idea that it depends on a social compact among the people that is prior to government and requires that they work independently of government to create a culture of inclusion. -- Bernard Boxill, professor emeritus, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillTable of ContentsForeword by Ruth Sample Author’s Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction Part I – Politics, Race, Class, and Feminism 1. Turbo-Charged Politics 2. The Junction of Race 3. The Political Creation of Class 4. The Amazing Success of Feminism Part II –– The Need for the Social Compact 5. The Social Contract and the Social Compact 6. Natural Disaster in Society 7. Unnatural Disaster in Nature 8. Homelessness and Monetization 9. Immigration and Expulsion Conclusion Index
£43.20
