Pathos of (In)Difference: Subject Formations Through the Liberal Imaginary

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dc.contributor.authorLiu, Jasmine Shaeen
dc.contributor.supervisorKroker, Arthur
dc.date.accessioned2015-09-23T20:25:16Z
dc.date.available2015-09-23T20:25:16Z
dc.date.copyright2015en_US
dc.date.issued2015-09-23
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Political Science
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis will undertake a study of contemporary political subjectivity by investigating the manifestations of various pathea found in contemporary politics. In examining how political impotence and indifference are cultivated through (neo)liberal subject formation, it argues that contemporary neoliberal subjectivity is constituted through the pathos of distance found in the gap between the impotent liberal subject and the imaginary, universal ideal subject articulated by liberalism. Through close readings of Wendy Brown’s writings, I explore her work and engage with her formulations of contemporary political subjectivity. Specifically, I will analyze the impotent subject constituted by the pathos of ressentiment, the vulnerable subject constituted by the pathos of walling, and the tolerated subject constituted by the pathos of difference in order to trace the relationships between the various pathea and the subjectivities that they construct.en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0615en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/6713
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectindifferenceen_US
dc.subjectsubject formationen_US
dc.subjectcontemporary political subjectivityen_US
dc.subjectliberalismen_US
dc.subjectneoliberalismen_US
dc.subjectressentimenten_US
dc.subjectpathos of distanceen_US
dc.subjectWendy Brownen_US
dc.subjectFriedrich Nietzscheen_US
dc.titlePathos of (In)Difference: Subject Formations Through the Liberal Imaginaryen_US
dc.title.alternativePathos of indifferenceen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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