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Author |
: Leo Bersani |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 222 |
Release |
: 2009-12-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226043449 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226043444 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Is the Rectum a Grave? by : Leo Bersani
Over the course of a distinguished career, critic Leo Bersani has tackled a range of issues in his writing, and this collection gathers together some of his finest work. Beginning with one of the foundations of queer theory—his famous meditation on how sex leads to a shattering of the self, “Is the Rectum a Grave?”—this volume charts the inspired connections Bersani has made between sexuality, psychoanalysis, and aesthetics. Over the course of these essays, Bersani grapples with thinkers ranging from Plato to Descartes to Georg Simmel. Foucault and Freud recur as key figures, and although Foucault rejected psychoanalysis, Bersani contends that by considering his ideas alongside Freud’s, one gains a clearer understanding of human identity and how we relate to one another. For Bersani, art represents a crucial guide for conceiving new ways of connecting to the world, and so, in many of these essays, he stresses the importance of aesthetics, analyzing works by Genet, Caravaggio, Proust, Almodóvar, and Godard. Documenting over two decades in the life of one of the best minds working in the humanities today, Is the Rectum a Grave? and Other Essays is a unique opportunity to explore the fruitful career of a formidable intellect.
Author |
: Lynne Huffer |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 259 |
Release |
: 2013-10-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780231535779 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0231535775 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Are the Lips a Grave? by : Lynne Huffer
Lynne Huffer's ambitious inquiry redresses the rift between feminist and queer theory, traversing the space of a new, post-moral sexual ethics that includes pleasure, desire, connection, and betrayal. She begins by balancing queer theorists' politics of sexual freedoms with a moralizing feminist politics that views sexuality as harm. Drawing on the best insights from both traditions, she builds an ethics centered on eros, following Michel Foucault's ethics as a practice of freedom and Luce Irigaray's lyrical articulation of an ethics of sexual difference. Through this theoretical lens, Huffer examines everyday experiences of ethical connection and failure connected to sex, including queer sexual practices, sodomy laws, interracial love, pornography, and work-life balance. Her approach complicates sexual identities while challenging the epistemological foundations of subjectivity. She rethinks ethics "beyond good and evil" without underestimating, as some queer theorists have done, the persistence of what Foucault calls the "catastrophe" of morality. Elaborating a thinking-feeling ethics of the other, Huffer encourages contemporary intellectuals to reshape sexual morality from within, defining an ethical space that is both poetically suggestive and politically relevant, both conceptually daring and grounded in common sexual experience.
Author |
: Leo Bersani |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 228 |
Release |
: 1996-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0674406206 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780674406209 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Homos by : Leo Bersani
Still, Bersani notes, not only has homophobia grown more virulent, but many gay men and lesbians themselves are reluctant to be identified as homosexuals. In Homos, he studies the historical, political, and philosophical grounds for the current distrust, within the gay community, of self-identifying moves, for the paradoxical desire to be invisibly visible. While acknowledging the dangers of any kind of group identification (if you can be singled out, you can be disciplined), Bersani argues for a bolder presentation of what it means to be gay. In their justifiable suspicion of labels, gay men and lesbians have nearly disappeared into their own sophisticated awareness of how they have been socially constructed. By downplaying their sexuality, gays risk self-immolation--they will melt into the stifling culture they had wanted to contest.
Author |
: Guy Hocquenghem |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 164 |
Release |
: 1993 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0822313847 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780822313847 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Homosexual Desire by : Guy Hocquenghem
This essay focuses on the possibility of social and personal transformation which was opened up by the gay liberation movement in France, which the author terms a "revolution of desire."
Author |
: Leo Bersani |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 140 |
Release |
: 1986 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0231062192 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780231062190 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Freudian Body by : Leo Bersani
Analyzes Samuel Beckett's novels, Mallarme's poetry, Pier Paolo Pasolini's film Salo, Assyrian palace reliefs, and writings by Henry James in terms of Freudian theories.
Author |
: Lee Edelman |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 307 |
Release |
: 2013-10-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134567232 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134567235 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis Homographesis by : Lee Edelman
Brings provocative, rigorous and controversial readings of literary and cultural texts to gay critical analysis. Lee Edelman rearticulates the politics of sexuality, addressing some of the most hotly debated issues of our time.
Author |
: Leo Bersani |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 149 |
Release |
: 2018-11-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226579931 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022657993X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Receptive Bodies by : Leo Bersani
Leo Bersani, known for his provocative interrogations of psychoanalysis, sexuality, and the human body, centers his latest book on a surprisingly simple image: a newborn baby simultaneously crying out and drawing its first breath. These twin ideas—absorption and expulsion, the intake of physical and emotional nourishment and the exhalation of breath—form the backbone of Receptive Bodies, a thoughtful new essay collection. These titular bodies range from fetuses in utero to fully eroticized adults, all the way to celestial giants floating in space. Bersani illustrates his exploration of the body’s capacities to receive and resist what is ostensibly alien using a typically eclectic set of sources, from literary icons like Marquis de Sade to cinematic provocateurs such as Bruno Dumont and Lars von Trier. This sharp and wide-ranging book will excite scholars of Freud, Foucault, and film studies, or anyone who has ever stopped to ponder the give and take of human corporeality.
Author |
: Jonathan A. Allan |
Publisher |
: Zed Books Ltd. |
Total Pages |
: 286 |
Release |
: 2016-03-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781783607570 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1783607572 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reading from Behind by : Jonathan A. Allan
'A serious work of theory.' The Guardian ‘Jonathan Allan has come up with a whole theory of the arsehole.’ Dazed and Confused In a resolute deviation from the governing totality of the phallus, Reading from Behind offers a radical reorientation of the anus and its role in the collective imaginary. It exposes what is deeply hidden in our cultural production, and challenges the authority of paranoid, critical thought. A beautiful work that invites us beyond the rejection of phallocentricism, to a new way of being and thinking about sex, culture and identity.
Author |
: Jonathan Goldberg |
Publisher |
: Psychology Press |
Total Pages |
: 312 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0415907551 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780415907552 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reclaiming Sodom by : Jonathan Goldberg
First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author |
: Jonathan Kemp |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 238 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0615870864 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780615870861 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Penetrated Male by : Jonathan Kemp
"There is much to like about a book which gets real about the male anus as a site of penetrability which is not reducible to discourses of feminization, phallicization or psychosis. With real panache and poetic flair, it returns us to an earlier moment in queer theoretical discourse we would associate with Lee Edelman's Homographesis (easily the best book ever written in queer theory and every page of The Penetrated Male reminded me of it), Calvin Thomas' Male Matters, and Leo Bersani's "Is the Rectum a Grave?" Given the recent squeamishness ... in queer theoretical circles about shit, anality, and penetrability, there is real value (and it is not some sort of nostalgia for an earlier moment we might want to get back to) in this book which never shies away from any of these matters. As embodied and eroticized theory, it fills a much needed hole in contemporary discourse about the male body. It is a book I should like to have written." (Michael O'Rourke) Through nuanced readings of a handful of modernist texts (Baudelaire, Huysmans, Wilde, Genet, Joyce, and Schreber's Memoirs), this book explores and interrogates the figure of the penetrated male body, developing the concept of the behind as a site of both fascination and fear. Deconstructing the penetrated male body and the genderisation of its representation, The Penetrated Male offers new understandings of passivity, suggesting that the modern masculine subject is predicated on a penetrability it must always disavow. Arguing that representation is the embodiment of erotic thought, it is an important contribution to queer theory and our understandings of gendered bodies.