| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 310 pages) |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: ch. One Subjectivity and absence: prejudice as a psychosocial theme -- ch. Two Primary process logic and prejudice -- ch. Three Contagion, conflict, and ambivalence: prejudice as transfer of shame and guilt -- ch. Four Injurious speech and frames of mind -- ch. Five Basic trust and alienation, or "we have nothing to reproach ourselves with" -- ch. Six Adaptation, containment, experience: Adorno, psychoanalytic developments, and the potential for social critique -- ch. Seven Perspectivism and plurality: Arendt's contribution to thinking about respect and prejudice -- ch. Eight Responsibility and the unconscious: sketches for a psychoanalytically informed ethics |
| Summary |
This book helps us understand the current resurgence of social prejudice against ethnic minority groups, the logics of scapegoating and the resulting violence. Our time is characterised by a growth in expressed hostility and violence towards people who are perceived as 'others'. Hatred towards and discrimination against minorities is on the rise. This book presents a new understanding of prejudice, racism, antisemitism, xenophobia, islamophobia, sexism and homophobia. It combines philosophy with psychoanalytic thinking, sociology and psycho-social studies, analysing the unconscious elements of |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Social isolation -- Psychological aspects
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Discrimination -- Psychological aspects
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Cultural pluralism.
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Prejudice -- psychology
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Social Isolation -- psychology
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Social Discrimination -- psychology
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Cultural Diversity
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EDUCATION -- Higher.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
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Cultural pluralism
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Discrimination -- Psychological aspects
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Social isolation -- Psychological aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781782413189 |
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1782413189 |
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