Is the rectum a grave?
Subtitle: and other essays
By: Leo Bersani.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9780226043524; 9780226043548
Subjects: Sex (Psychology); Psychoanalysis and art; Gender identity; Queer theory; Cruising (Sexual behavior); Psychoanalysis; Aesthetics
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The sexual subject; title: Is the rectum a grave?; title: Is there a gay art?; title: Gay betrayals; title: Sociability and cruising; title: Aggression, shame, and Almodóvar's art; title: Toward an aesthetic subject; title: Against monogamy; title: Sociality and sexuality; title: Can sex make us happy?; title: Fr-oucault and the end of sex; title: Psychoanalysis and the aesthetic subject; title: The will to know; title: Two interviews; title: A conversation with Leo Bersani / with Tim Dean, Hal Foster, and Kaja Silverman; title: Beyond redemption: an interview with Leo Bersani / with Nicholas Royle.