Neither Victim nor Survivor Thinking toward a New Humanity

by Nissim-sabat, Marilyn

• ISBN13: 9780739128220
• ISBN10: 0739128221
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-07-16
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

In Neither Victim nor Survivor: Thinking toward a New Humanity, Marilyn Nissim-Sabat offers a comprehensive critique of the interrelated concepts of 'victim' and 'survivor' as they have been ideologically distorted in Western thought. Framed by the phenomenological perspective of Edmund Husserl, Nissim-Sabat carries out her argument through an intense engagement with current scholarly work on Toni Morrison's Beloved, Sophocles' Antigone, akrasia, psychoanalysis, critical race theory, feminist philosophy of science, and Marxism. Nissim-Sabat ultimately proposes that a new consciousness, enabled by the phenomenological attitude, of the way in which ideological distortion of the concepts of 'victim' and 'survivor' helps to perpetuate victimization will empower us to find ways to end victimization and its anti-human consequences. The book's interdisciplinary approach will make it appealing to a broad range of students and scholars alike.

Author Biography

Marilyn Nissim-Sabat is professor emeritus of philosophy at Lewis University.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xvii
What Is a Victim?	p. 1
Freud, Gender, and the Epigenesis of Morality: A Critique	p. 21
The Crisis in Psychoanalysis: Resolution through Husserlian Phenomenlogy and Feminism	p. 43
Addictions, Akrasia, and Self Psychology: A Socratic and Psychoanalytic View of Akrasia as Victim Blaming	p. 81
Fanon, Phenomenology, and the Decent ring of Philosophy: Lewis Gordon's Her Majesty's Other Children: Sketches of Racism from a Neocolonial Age	p. 97
Race and Culture: Victim Blaming in Psychology, Psychiatry, and Psychoanalysis	p. 111
Autonomy, Empathy, and Transcendence in Sophocles' Antigone: A Phenomenological Perspective, with an Epilogue: On Lacan's Antigone	p. 129
Neither Victim nor Survivor Be: Who Is Beloved's Baby?	p. 163
Bibliography	p. 195
Index	p. 203
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