The Comic Self Av Timothy C. Campbell, Grant Farred

<P><B>A provocative and unconventional call to dispossess the self of itself</B><BR/><BR/> </P><P>Challenging the contemporary notion of “self-care” and the Western mania for “self-possession,” <I>The Comic Self</I> deploys philosophical discourse and literary expression to propose an alternate and less toxic model for human aspiration: a comic self. Timothy Campbell and Grant Farred argue that the problem with the “care of the self,” from Foucault onward, is that it reinforces identity, strengthening the relation between <I>I</I> and <I>mine</I>. This assertion of self-possession raises a question vital for understanding how we are to live with each other and ourselves: How can you care for something that is truly not yours?</P><P>The answer lies in the unrepresentable comic self. Campbell and Farred range across philosophy, literature, and contemporary comedy—engaging with Socrates, Burke, Hume, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, D

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