Radical Sociality

A philosophical and psychoanalytic investigation of relations to otherness, violence, disobedience and belonging, Radical Sociality explores the possibilities and vicissitudes of contemporary forms of belonging and the limits and challenges of democracy.

Autorentext

Margarita Palacios is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. Her research interests include the study of the intersections of politics, gender, culture and psychoanalysis, continental philosophy and social theory, post-colonialism and Latin American studies. She is the author of Fantasy and Political Violence: The Meaning of Anti-Communism in Chile.

Inhalt
Introduction 1. Hermeneutics and the Art of Disobedience 2. Death, Anxiety and the Vicissitudes of Action 3. Fantasy, Otherness and Violence 4. From Narcissism to Melancholia 5. Rethinking Melancholia 6. Decolonizing Trauma and the Ethics of Anxious Witnessing 7. On Infinite Criticality Notes References Index