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Luckily for human diversity, we are perfectly capable of desiring impossible things. Failing Desire explores a particular set of these impossibilities, those connected to humiliation. These include the failure of autonomy in submission, of inward privacy in confession, of visual modesty in exhibition, and of dignity in playing various roles. Historically, those who find pleasure in these failures range from ancient Cynics through early Christian monks to those now drawn by queer or perverse eroticism. As Judith Halberstam pointed out in The Queer Art of Failure, failure can actually be a mode of resistance to demands for what a culture defines as success. Karmen MacKendrick draws on this interest in queer refusals. To value, desire, or seek humiliation undercuts any striving for success, but it draws our attention particularly to the failures of knowledge as a form of power, whether that knowledge is of one body or of a population. How can we understand will that seeks not to govern itself, psychology that constructs inwardness by telling all, blushing shame that delights in exposure, or dignity that refuses its lofty position? Failing Desire suggests that the power of these desires and pleasures comes out of the very realization that this question can never quite be answered.

Failure (Psychology) --- Shame. --- Humiliation. --- Emotions --- Guilt --- Losing (Psychology) --- Psychology --- Fear of failure --- Success

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The humble idea that experts are ordinary human beings leads to surprising conclusions about how to get the best possible expert advice. All too often, experts have monopoly power because of licensing restrictions or because they are government bureaucrats protected from both competition and the consequences of their decisions. This book argues that, in the market for expert opinion, we need real competition in which rival experts may have different opinions and new experts are free to enter. But the idea of breaking up expert monopolies has far-reaching implications for public administration, forensic science, research science, economics, America's military-industrial complex, and all domains of expert knowledge. Roger Koppl develops a theory of experts and expert failure, and uses a wide range of examples - from forensic science to fashion - to explain the applications of his theory, including state regulation of economic activity.

Expertise. --- Failure (Psychology) --- Losing (Psychology) --- Psychology --- Fear of failure --- Success --- Specialization --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Ability

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In this work, historian Stephanie Barczewski argues that Britain's embrace of heroic failure initially helped to gloss over the moral ambiguities of imperial expansion. Later, it became a strategy for coming to terms with diminishment and loss. Filled with compelling, moving, and often humourous stories from history, Barczewski's survey offers a fresh way of thinking about the continuing legacy of empire in British culture today.

Italy --- Rome --- History. --- Civilization. --- Civilization --- National characteristics, British. --- Failure (Psychology) --- Heroes --- Heroism --- Persons --- Antiheroes --- Apotheosis --- Courage --- Losing (Psychology) --- Psychology --- Fear of failure --- Success --- British national characteristics --- Great Britain

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Most of us are taught from a young age to be winners and avoid being losers. But what does it mean to win or lose? And why do we care so much? Does winning make us happy? Winning undertakes an unprecedented investigation of winning and losing in American society, what we are really after as we struggle to win, our collective beliefs about winners and losers, and much more. Francesco Duina argues that victory and loss are not endpoints or final destinations but gateways to something of immense importance to us: the affirmation of our place in the world. But Duina also shows that competition is unlikely to provide us with the answers we need. Winning and losing are artificial and logically flawed concepts that put us at odds with the world around us and, ultimately, ourselves. Duina explores the social and psychological effects of the language of competition in American culture. Primarily concerned with our shared obsessions about winning and losing, Winning proposes a new mind-set for how we can pursue our dreams, and, in a more satisfying way, find our proper place in the world.

National characteristics, American. --- Competition (Psychology) --- Failure (Psychology) --- Success --- Losers --- Social values --- American national characteristics --- Competitive behavior --- Competitiveness (Psychology) --- Conflict (Psychology) --- Interpersonal relations --- Motivation (Psychology) --- Losing (Psychology) --- Psychology --- Fear of failure

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Success --- Failure (Psychology) --- Psychology, Experimental --- Psychological aspects --- Methodology --- History --- -Failure (Psychology) --- -Experimental psychology --- Psychology --- Experimental psychologists --- Losing (Psychology) --- Fear of failure --- Growth (Psychology) --- Personal development --- Personal growth --- Self-improvement --- Conduct of life --- Fortune --- Fear of success --- -History --- Research --- Experiments --- -Psychological aspects --- Experimental psychology --- Methodology&delete& --- Success - Psychological aspects --- Psychology, Experimental - Methodology - History