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Transitional Subjects
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Amy Allen (PhD, Philosophy, Northwestern) is Liberal Arts Professor of Philosophy and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and head of the Philosophy Department at the Pennsylvania State University. Her publications include The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory (Columbia, 2016) and The Politics of Our Selves: Power, Autonomy, and Gender in Contemporary Critical Theory (Columbia, 2007). She is also the editor of the Columbia series New Directions in Critical Theory. She specializes in critical social theory, feminist theory, and 20th-century continental philosophy.O'Connor Brian :
Brian O'Connor (PhD, Philosophy, Oxford) is Professor of Philosophy at University College Dublin. He is the author of Idleness: A Philosophical Essay (Princeton, 2018), Adorno (Routledge, 2013), and Adorno's Negative Dialectic: Philosophy and the Possibility of a Critical Rationality (MIT, 2004), the editor of The Adorno Reader (Blackwell, 2000), and the coeditor (with Georg Mohr) of German Idealism: An Anthology and Guide (Chicago, 2007). His research focuses on critical theory and German idealism.Allen Amy :
Amy Allen (PhD, Philosophy, Northwestern) is Liberal Arts Professor of Philosophy and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and head of the Philosophy Department at the Pennsylvania State University. Her publications include The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory (Columbia, 2016) and The Politics of Our Selves: Power, Autonomy, and Gender in Contemporary Critical Theory (Columbia, 2007). She is also the editor of the Columbia series New Directions in Critical Theory. She specializes in critical social theory, feminist theory, and 20th-century continental philosophy.Amy Allen is Liberal Arts Professor of Philosophy and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and head of the Department of Philosophy at the Pennsylvania State University. Her books include, most recently, The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory (Columbia, 2016).
Brian O’Connor is professor of philosophy at University College Dublin. His books include Adorno (2013) and Idleness: A Philosophical Essay (2018).
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The essays in Transitional Subjects explain recent changes in Freudian psychoanalytic theory by investigating the shift toward a contemporary object-relational perspective. The political connections drawn from each paper are powerful, situating critical theory within capitalism and the various political aporias of everyday life.
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CONTENTS
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Introduction
1 - I. CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS
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1. Fusion or Omnipotence? A Dialogue
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2. Hate, Aggression, and Recognition: Winnicott, Klein, and Honneth
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3. Narcissism and Critique: On Kohut’s Self Psychology
75 - II. HISTORICAL ENCOUNTERS
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4. Progress and the Death Drive
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5. Transitional Objects, God, and Modeling the Commodity Form
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6 A “True-Enough Self ”: Winnicott, Object Relations Theory, and the Bases of Identity
159 - III. POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS
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7. Intersubjectivity on the Couch: Recognition and Destruction in the Work of Jessica Benjamin
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8. Politics and the Fear of Breakdown
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9. Who Is the Perpetrator? The Missing Affect in Torture’s Violation of Human Dignity
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