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Josh Cohen Losers (Paperback). ‘Loser’ was Donald Trump’s favourite insult within a hotly contested field. This is a remarkable and clarifying book.’. This is exactly the conversation we need to be having right now.’. – Deborah Levy‘Eloquent, urgent, this breath-taking essay, bristles with wit and analytic understanding. Further DetailsTitle: Losers Condition: New Author: Josh Cohen Format: Paperback EAN: 9781999922344 ISBN: 9781999922344 Publisher: Peninsula Press Ltd Genre: Literary Criticism Release Date: 10/07/2021 Description: An essay about politics, humility, and lossYou are a loser. For psychoanalysis, this isn’t a personal slight, but an impersonal truth. So why have we come to fear losing?‘Loser’ was Donald Trump’s favourite insult within a hotly contested field. But while progressives disdain his divisive politics, they have mostly failed to challenge meritocratic values that divide society into winners and losers. How might we truly escape our toxic political culture?In this powerful, wide-ranging essay, psychoanalyst and critic Josh Cohen suggests that the answer may lie in a notion of humility. Far from a sentimental moral virtue, humility may well be the most elusive, precarious, and indeed radical value of all, one which relies upon a full-hearted embrace of one’s inner loser. Enlisting the help of a cast of unlikely comrades – Thomas Bernhard, Franz Kafka, and Robert Walser – Cohen shows how we might move beyond a culture based on enforced positivity, resentment, and humiliation.Praise‘Josh Cohen has made perhaps the most pernicious, offensive and distracting word in the English language of amazing and illuminating interest. This is a remarkable and clarifying book.’ – Adam Phillips‘With compassion, skill and verve, Josh Cohen eloquently dismantles societal and personal delusions about winning and losing. This is exactly the conversation we need to be having right now.’ – Deborah Levy‘Eloquent, urgent, this breath-taking essay, bristles with wit and analytic understanding. Our social settlements, our lying politicians, our very language of winners and losers has never undergone this kind of rigorous dissection before. A tour de force – or should I say a loser’s triumph…’ – Lisa Appignanesi‘Josh Cohen’s Losers feels necessary: a profound meditation and an ethical salve for a world that wounds us with its increasing ethos of success-at-any-cost. With gentleness, he guides us through the paradoxes of humility, uncertainty, neutrality, and the excess of shame and humiliation that lurks behind today’s peculiar brand of triumphalism.’ – Jamieson Webster Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: GB Item Height: 164mm Item Length: 112mm Release Year: 2021 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
