Peter Gabel

The Desire for Mutual Recognition (eBook, ePUB)

Social Movements and the Dissolution of the False Self

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a work of accessible social theory that seeks to make visible the desire for authentic social connection, emanating from our social nature, that animates all human relationships.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351602099
• Artikelnr.: 50918142

Autorenporträt

Peter Gabel is the former president of New College of California and was for over thirty years a professor at its public-interest law school. He is a founder of the critical legal studies movement and the Project for Integrating Spirituality, Law, and Politics. Editor-at-Large of the progressive Jewish magazine Tikkun, he is the author of numerous books and articles on law, politics, and social change. He lives in San Francisco with his partner Lisa Jaicks, a union organizer for the hospitality workers union, and they have one son, Sam, 22, a hip-hop artist and emcee.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction 1. The Desire for Mutual Recognition 2. The Denial of Desire
Fear of the Other
and Formation of the False Self 3. Humiliation
Authority
Hierarchy 4. The Imaginary Community: The Family
The Nation
and "Race" 5. Language
Thought
Ideology 6. The Economic System as a Network of Alienated Reciprocities 7. Politics as the Struggle Over Who 'We' Are: On the Necessity of Building a Parallel Universe 8. Knowledge
Truth
and Understanding 9. The Movement's Lack of Confidence in Itself: On the Necessity of Spiritualizing Social Activism 10. Social-Spiritual Activism: Thawing the Casing of the False Self and Becoming Present to Each Other as We Heal and Repair the World