Is the Rectum a Grave? And Other Essays

Name: Is the Rectum a Grave? And Other Essays
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ISBN: 9780226043548

ISBN-10: 0226043541

ISBN-13: 9780226043548

Edition: 2009

Authors: Leo Bersani

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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 theoryhis 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…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/15/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.94" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Preface



The Sexual Subject



Is the Rectum a Grave?



Is There a Gay Art?



Gay Betrayals



Sociability and Cruising



Aggression, Gay Shame, and Almodï¿½var's Art



Toward an Aesthetic Subject



Against Monogamy



Sociality and Sexuality



Can Sex Make Us Happy?



Fr-oucault and the End of Sex



Psychoanalysis and the Aesthetic Subject



The Will to Know



Two Interviews



A Conversation with Leo Bersani




Beyond Redemption: An Interview with Leo Bersani



Index