Leo Bersani

A Speculative Introduction

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

AvMikko Tuhkanen

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For the past 60 years, Leo Bersani has inspired, resisted, guided, and challenged scholarly work in the fields of literary criticism, queer theory, cultural studies, psychoanalytic theory, and film and visual studies. Moving across an impressive range of sources, Mikko Tuhkanen seeks out the “fundamental notes”—the questions that we find and refind—in Bersani’s extensive oeuvre across the decades.The chapters explore Bersani’s engagement with psychoanalytic theory (Freud, Laplanche, Klein, Lacan), French and American modernist fiction (Proust, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, James, Beckett), poststructuralist theory (Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, Guattari, Blanchot), queer theory (Butler, Edelman), and the visual arts (Caravaggio, Almodóvar, Pasolini, Malick, Dumont). This first introduction to Bersani's work provides a chronological overview of his thought and details his contributions to literary studies and critical theory.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-11-12
Mått140 x 216 x undefined mm
Vikt544 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor344
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781623564117

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Mikko Tuhkanen is Professor of English at Texas A&M University, USA. He is the author of The Essentialist Villain: On Leo Bersani (2018) and The American Optic: Psychoanalysis, Critical Race Theory, and Richard Wright (2009). He is also the editor of Leo Bersani: Queer Theory and Beyond (2014), as well as the co-editor, with E. L. McCallum, of Queer Times, Queer Becomings (2011) and The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature (2014).

AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction Part I Wanting Being 1. The Psychoanalytic Subject 2. What Is an Individual? (A Deleuzean Query) 3. Performativity and Speculative Politics 4. The Antisocial Thesis Part II The Correspondence Thesis 5. Whither Narcissus? 6. Saving Frivolity, or, On Sociability and Spandrels 7. The Virtual Unconscious Part III . . . But Is It Art? 8. Fascinating Rhythm 9. Leo Bersani’s Speculative AestheticsWorks Cited Index

Leo Bersani’s greatness is tied to a resolutely interlocutory ethics—to his generous thinking-with (with Sade, Proust, Freud, Laplanche, Deleuze, Foucault, Beckett, Dumont; with art by way of doing theory and with theory by way of making a kind of art). Mikko Tuhkanen honors this half-century-long project by taking Bersani as his interlocutor to explore the ambivalences, tensions, irresolvable questions, but also rhythms, fascinations, and, yes, seductions of twentieth-century continental theory. Tuhkanen is a worthy Beatrice, guiding us through the paradisiacal riches of Bersani’s beautiful, rigorous, and gloriously destabilizing readings.