Includes index. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The sexual subject -- Is the rectum a grave? -- Is there a gay art? -- Gay betrayals -- Sociability and cruising -- Aggression, shame, and AlmodoĢvar'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 / with Tim Dean, Hal Foster, and Kaja Silverman -- Beyond redemption: an interview with Leo Bersani / with Nicholas Royle.
Summary:
The title essay in this collection is one of the foundations of queer theory. This is a retrospective, charting Bersani's contributions to debates connecting sexuality, psychoanalysis & aesthetics, & his reactions to a range of leading thinkers, among them Plato, Descartes, Foucault, Genet & Proust.
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