Beyond autistic politics
Narcissism and public agency
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11340456 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fred Dallmayr (University of Notre Dame, corresponding author), Fred R Dallmayr (University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pages | 987-997 |
| Publication date | 2017-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy & Social Criticism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0191-4537 • E-ISSN: 1461-734X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0191453717695854 |
| OpenAlex | W2945834129 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Western modernity is frequently praised as a process of emancipation liberating individuals from external tutelage. While in the early phases of modernity, individual autonomy was still socially nurtured and embedded, subsequent developments put the premium steadily on negative liberty, thus pushing individuals into private self-enclosure. Autonomy thus became divorced from social and political agency. In psychoanalysis such divorce is called autism or narcissism. The article first examines Zygmunt Bauman’s discussion of the pathology in his The Individualized Society. Next to show the progressive globalization of the malaise, the article turns to an analysis of contemporary Indian society by Ashis Nandy. Finally, the article considers a possible remedy for the pathology: the restoration of a ‘public realm’ as recommended by Hannah Arendt
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Autonomy · Contemporary society · Emancipation · Environmental ethics · Globalization · Malaise · Modernity · Narcissism · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Realm · Social science · Sociology · Law · Medicine · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics · Psychology · Zygmunt Bauman's Sociology
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2017 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |