Overview
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 social processes. The author makes a case for framing a questioning of prejudice, not in terms of normality versus pathology or deviance, but in what is socially unconscious. Hypocrisy and double standards are inherent in our social practices, reflecting the contradictions present in our thinking about these issues: that we both believe and do not believe in equality.
Full Product Details
Author: Lene Auestad
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.870kg
ISBN: 9780367102753
ISBN 10: 0367102757
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 14 June 2019
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
The sophisticated mix of examining prejudice refracted through the lenses of philosophy, social theory and psychoanalysis makes this book so important for our times. Whilst tackling a dark subject, it provides hope in thinking about the experiences of mutuality and respect between the Self and the Other. --Dr Jonathan Sklar, Training Analyst With great intellectual rigour and audacity, Lene Auestad offers a politically engaged analysis of the complexities of the experience of prejudice. Navigating through phenomenological, psychoanalytical, and sociological accounts, Respect, Plurality, and Prejudice connects the subjective with the political and the social with the unconscious. Critiquing contemporary forms of racism and violence and facing the ethical challenges that derive from the theorising of 'being among others', this book is a wonderful and necessary addition to the emerging field of Psychosocial Studies. --Dr Margarita Palacios, Senior Lecturer, Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck Lene Auestad's book offers a penetrating analysis of the mechanisms - often unconscious - at work in various cases of prejudice in contemporary society. Ranging from the individual as well as collective dynamics of racism to the debate over freedom of speech, the book demonstrates the usefulness of drawing on psychoanalytic insights in order to understand the deeper layers of the aggression against stigmatised 'others' in today's Europe. --Professor Arne Johan Vetlesen, author of Evil and Human Agency and Department of Philosophy Lene Auestad's work is an eminently important scholarly contribution to the understanding of prejudice, hate speech, discrimination, and social exclusion - phenomena that challenge and threaten democracies in Europe, old and new. Investigating prejudice and related problems, she combines philosophical, sociological, and social psychological enquiry with psychoanalytic reflections. She applies the ideas of Sigmund Freud, Sandor Ferenczi, Michael Balint, and of the object relational school to examining prejudice and other social phenomena in a highly original and productive way. She integrates these approaches in the framework of psycho-social studies. This excellent book should be read by all social scientists, psychoanalysts, and psychologists who are obliged to fight against prejudice and racism - in practice as well as in theory. --Professor Ferenc Eros, Department of Social Psychology
"""Lene Auestad's work is an eminently important scholarly contribution to the understanding of prejudice, hate speech, discrimination, and social exclusion - phenomena that challenge and threaten democracies in Europe, ""old"" and ""new."" Investigating prejudice and related problems, she combines philosophical, sociological, and social psychological enquiry with psychoanalytic reflections. She applies the ideas of Sigmund Freud, S�ndor Ferenczi, Michael Balint, and of the object relational school to examining prejudice and other social phenomena in a highly original and productive way. She integrates these approaches in the framework of psycho-social studies. This excellent book should be read by all social scientists, psychoanalysts, and psychologists who are obliged to fight against prejudice and racism - in practice as well as in theory.""--Professor Ferenc Eros, Department of Social Psychology ""Lene Auestad's book offers a penetrating analysis of the mechanisms - often unconscious - at work in various cases of prejudice in contemporary society. Ranging from the individual as well as collective dynamics of racism to the debate over freedom of speech, the book demonstrates the usefulness of drawing on psychoanalytic insights in order to understand the deeper layers of the aggression against stigmatised 'others' in today's Europe.""--Professor Arne Johan Vetlesen, author of Evil and Human Agency and Department of Philosophy ""The sophisticated mix of examining prejudice refracted through the lenses of philosophy, social theory and psychoanalysis makes this book so important for our times. Whilst tackling a dark subject, it provides hope in thinking about the experiences of mutuality and respect between the Self and the Other.""--Dr Jonathan Sklar, Training Analyst ""With great intellectual rigour and audacity, Lene Auestad offers a politically engaged analysis of the complexities of the experience of prejudice. Navigating through phenomenological, psychoanalytical, and sociological accounts, Respect, Plurality, and Prejudice connects the subjective with the political and the social with the unconscious. Critiquing contemporary forms of racism and violence and facing the ethical challenges that derive from the theorising of 'being among others', this book is a wonderful and necessary addition to the emerging field of Psychosocial Studies.""--Dr Margarita Palacios, Senior Lecturer, Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck"
