Research Catalog

Title

Is the rectum a grave? : and other essays / Leo Bersani.

Author

Bersani, Leo

Publication

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2010.

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Description

x, 211 p.; 24 cm.

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.

Subject

• Aesthetics
• Homosexuality
• Psychoanalysis
• Sexuality
• Sex (Psychology)
• Psychoanalysis and art
• Gender identity
• Queer theory
• Cruising (Sexual behavior)
• Aesthetics
• Gender Identity
• Psychoanalytic Theory

Genre/Form

Collected Work

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The sexual subject -- Is the rectum a grave? -- Is there a gay art? -- Gay betrayals -- Sociability and cruising -- Aggression, shame, and Almodóvar'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.

ISBN

• 9780226043524 (alk. paper)
• 9780226043548 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0226043525 (alk. paper)
• 0226043541 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009021307

OCLC

• 317922612
• SCSB-11343565

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library