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Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Recentering the Subject -- "Do We Still Want to Be Subjects?" -- Guilt for Being and Not Being -- Winnicottian Interventions -- Part I: The Subject's Creation: Aggression, Isolation, and Destruction -- Part II: The Subject Faced with Deprivation and Disaster -- Part III: Revitalizing the Subject of Political Theory -- Part IV: Intersubjectivity, Justice, and Equality -- Postscript on the Life and Work of D.W. Winnicott -- Notes -- References -- Part I: The Subject's Creation: Aggression, Isolation, and Destruction -- Chapter 2: Being and Encountering: Movement and Aggression in Winnicott -- Winnicott's Question -- Movement and Being -- The Aggression of Being -- Psychic Motility and Creativity -- Aggression and Destruction -- Motility, Aggression, and Social Life -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: The Isolation of the True Self and the Problem of Impingement: Implications of Winnicott's Theory for Social Connection and Political Engagement -- Subjectivity and Relating to Others -- The Consequences of Impingement -- Civility and Subjective Causation -- Modalities of Relating -- Impingement and the Fantasy of Political Community -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: The Psychoanalytic Winnicott We Need Now: On the Way to a Real Ecological Thought -- Where We Start From -- "The Mother" -- Primary Process -- What Is Psychoanalytic? Abiding Paradox -- Abiding Not Knowing -- A Taste for Separation in Singularly Loving Earthly Life -- References -- Part II: The Subject Faced with Deprivation and Disaster -- Chapter 5: Playing 'Riot': Identity in Refuge-Absent Child Narratives in the 2013 Hindu-Muslim Riots in Muzaffarnagar, India -- Locale of the Environment: The Relief Camp at Kandhla, Muzaffarnagar

1. Introduction -- 2. Experience, failure, and thinking -- 3. The incorporation and transmission of traumatic experience -- 4. Misunderstood and repeated experience in Le Malentendu -- 5. Experience and control in higher education -- 6. Aloneness and its opposites -- 7. Hikikomori : deprived, isolated, and disfigured selves -- 8. 'Natural' experience and the state of nature.

In Rethinking the Politics of Absurdity, Matthew H. Bowker offers a surprising account of absurdity as a widespread endeavor to make parts of our experience meaningless. In the last century, he argues, fears about subjects' destructive desires have combined with fears about rationality in a way that has made the absurd stance seem attractive. Drawing upon diverse sources from philosophy, literature, politics, psychoanalysis, theology, and contemporary culture, Bowker identifies the absurd effort to make aspects of our histories, our selves, and our public projects meaningless with postmodern revolts against reason and subjectivity. Weaving together analyses of the work of Albert Camus, Georges Bataille, Judith Butler, Emmanuel Levinas, and others with interview data and popular narratives of apocalypse and survival, Bowker shows that the absurd stance and the postmodern revolt invite a kind of bargain, in which meaning is sacrificed in exchange for the survival of innocence. Bowker asks us to consider that the very premise of this bargain is false: that ethical subjects and healthy communities cannot be created in absurdity. Instead, we must make meaningful even the most shocking losses, terrors, and destructive powers with which we live. Bowker's book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners in the fields of political science, philosophy, literature, psychoanalysis, sociology, and cultural studies

"In Rethinking the Politics of Absurdity, Matthew H. Bowker offers a surprising account of absurdity as a widespread endeavor to make parts of our experience meaningless. In the last century, he argues, fears about subjects' destructive desires have combined with fears about rationality in a way that has made the absurd stance seem attractive. Drawing upon diverse sources from philosophy, literature, politics, psychoanalysis, theology, and contemporary culture, Bowker identifies the absurd effort to make aspects of our histories, our selves, and our public projects meaningless with postmodern revolts against reason and subjectivity. Weaving together analyses of the work of Albert Camus, Georges Bataille, Judith Butler, Emmanuel Levinas, and others with interview data and popular narratives of apocalypse and survival, Bowker shows that the absurd stance and the postmodern revolt invite a kind of bargain, in which meaning is sacrificed in exchange for the survival of innocence. Bowker asks us to consider that the very premise of this bargain is false: that ethical subjects and healthy communities cannot be created in absurdity. Instead, we must make meaningful even the most shocking losses, terrors, and destructive powers with which we live. Bowker's book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners in the fields of political science, philosophy, literature, psychoanalysis, sociology, and cultural studies"--