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Sex, or the Unbearable - Lauren Berlant, Lee Edelman

Sex, or the Unbearable

Buch | Hardcover
168 Seiten
2013
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-5580-9 (ISBN)
CHF 137,90 inkl. MwSt
In Sex, or the Unbearable two of our leading theorists of sexuality, politics, and culture engage in intense and animated dialogue about living with—and imagining alternatives to—what's overwhelming in sex, friendship, social inequality, and one's relation to oneself.
Sex, or the Unbearable is a dialogue between Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman, two of our leading theorists of sexuality, politics, and culture. In juxtaposing sex and the unbearable they don't propose that sex is unbearable, only that it unleashes unbearable contradictions that we nonetheless struggle to bear. In Berlant and Edelman's exchange, those terms invoke disturbances produced in encounters with others, ourselves, and the world, disturbances that tap into threats induced by fears of loss or rupture as well as by our hopes for repair. Through virtuoso interpretations of works of cinema, photography, critical theory, and literature, including Lydia Davis's story "Break It Down" (reprinted in full here), Berlant and Edelman explore what it means to live with negativity, with those divisions that may be irreparable. Together, they consider how such negativity affects politics, theory, and intimately felt encounters. But where their critical approaches differ, neither hesitates to voice disagreement. Their very discussion—punctuated with moments of frustration, misconstruction, anxiety, aggression, recognition, exhilaration, and inspiration—enacts both the difficulty and the potential of encounter, the subject of this unusual exchange between two eminent critics and close friends.

Lauren Berlant is George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor of English at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Cruel Optimism, The Female Complaint, and The Queen of America Goes to Washington City, all also published by Duke University Press. Lee Edelman is Fletcher Professor of English Literature at Tufts University. He is the author of L'impossible Homosexuel; No Future, also published by Duke University Press; and Homographesis.

Preface vii

1. Sex without Optimism 1

2. What Survives 35

3. Living with Negativity 63

Afterwords 119

Appendix. "Break It Down" / Lydia Davis 127

Acknowledgments 135

References 137

Index 141

Reihe/Serie Theory Q
Zusatzinfo 6 photographs
Verlagsort North Carolina
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 229 mm
Gewicht 363 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie Partnerschaft / Sexualität
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Sexualität / Partnerschaft
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Allgemeines / Lexika
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 0-8223-5580-9 / 0822355809
ISBN-13 978-0-8223-5580-9 / 9780822355809
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