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008			200507s2012 ilu ob s001 0 eng
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049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aRonell, Avital. _e1
245	1	0	_aLoser sons : _bpolitics and authority / _cAvital Ronell.
260			_aUrbana : _bUniversity of Illinois Press, _c(c)2012.
300			_a1 online resource
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505	0	0	_aCover -- _tTitle Page -- _tCopyright -- _tContents -- _tPreface. Wrestling a Bad Object -- _tIntroduction. Tiers of Childhood and the Defeat of Politics -- _tChapter 1. What Was Authority? -- _tChapter 2. The Household of Authority -- _tChapter 3. Archeophilia, Panic, and Authority -- _tBaby Step -- _tWhat Is Called Father? (A Fissure in Familialism) -- _tChapter 4. The Good Loser: Kafka Sends Off a Missive to Father -- _tChapter 5. The Battle of Wills: On Being Cheap -- _tWhat Is Called Father?: The Sequel -- _tRestauration
505	0	0	_aChapter 6. On the Unrelenting Creepiness of Childhood: Lyotard, Kid-TestedChapter 7. Was war AufklÃ?rung? / _rWhat Was Enlightenment?: The Turn of the Screwed -- _tIndex
520	0		_a"There are sons who grow up unhappily believing that no matter what they do, they cannot please their fathers. Often unable to shed their sense of lifelong failure, either they give up and suffer in a permanent sulk, or they try with all their might to prove they are worth something after all. These are the "loser sons," a group of historical men as varied as President George W. Bush, Osama bin Laden, and Mohammed Atta. Their names quickly illustrate that not only are their problems serious, but they also make serious problems for others, expanding to whole nations. When God is conceived and inculcated as an angry and impossible-to-please father, the problems can last for generations. In Loser Sons, Avital Ronell draws on current philosophy, literary history, and political events to confront the grim fact that divested boys become terrifying men. This would be old news if the problem didn't recur so often with such disastrous consequences. Looking beyond our current moment, she interrogates the problems of authority, paternal fantasy, and childhood as they have been explored and exemplified by Franz Kafka, Goethe's Faust, Benjamin Franklin, Jean-François Lyotard, Hannah Arendt, Alexandre Kojève, and Immanuel Kant. Brilliantly weaving these threads into a polyvocal discourse, Ronell shows how, with their arrays of powerful symbols, ideologies of all sorts perpetuate the theme that while childhood represents innocence, adulthood entails responsible cruelty. The need for suffering--preferably somebody else's--has become a widespread assumption, not only justifying abuses of authority, but justifying authority itself. Shockingly honest, Loser Sons recognizes that focusing on the spectacular catastrophes of modernity might make writer and reader feel they're engaged in something important, while in fact what they are engaged in is still only spectacle. To understand the implications of her insights, Ronell addresses them directly to her readers, challenging them to think through their own notions of authority and their responses to it."--Publisher's website.
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600	1	0	_aKafka, Franz, _d1883-1924 _xFamily.
600	1	0	_aLyotard, Jean-François, _d1924-1998.
650		0	_aAuthority in literature.
650		0	_aAuthority.
650		0	_aFathers and sons in literature.
650		0	_aFathers and sons.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell