Living Attention

Alice A. Jardine is Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Studies on Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University. She is the coeditor (with Anne M. Menke) of Shifting Scenes: Interviews on Women, Writing, and Politics in Post-68 France. Shannon Lundeen is Associate Director of the Alice Paul Center for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality at the University of Pennsylvania and the coeditor (with Mary C. Rawlinson) of The Voice of Breast Cancer in Medicine and Bioethics. Kelly Oliver is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University and the author of The Colonization of Psychic Space: A Psychoanalytic Social Theory of Oppression.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionShannon Lundeen1. A Surplus of Living Attention: Celebrating the Life and Ideas of Teresa BrennanAlice A. Jardine2. Living A TensionKelly Oliver3. Time Difference: The Political Psychoanalysis of Teresa BrennanRobyn Ferrell4. Heidegger After BrennanAnne O’Byrne5. Repressed Knowledge and the Transmission of AffectSusan James6. Emotion, Affect, Drive: For Teresa BrennanCharles Shepherdson7. After Teresa BrennanKalpana Rahita Seshadri8. Ubuntu and Teresa Brennan’s EnergeticsDrucilla Cornell9. What’s Not SeenGillian Beer10. Reading BrennanJane Gallop11. Can We Make Peace? For Teresa BrennanJulia KristevaA Eulogy for Teresa BrennanSusan Buck-MorssList of ContributorsIndex

"These extraordinary essays show the far-ranging significance of Teresa Brennan's thought, while at the same time continue her project of envisioning the possibility of creating something new from the remains of patriarchy and globalization. Situating her work within the feminist tradition known as 'Australian materialism,' the essays included here respond to Brennan's work on affectivity, mourning, modernity, contemporary biological and neurological research, and ethical responsibility. Together they offer sustenance and new directions of thought for those of us who are left to carry on the work of this much-admired and important thinker." — Peg Birmingham, author of Hannah Arendt and Human Rights: The Predicament of Common Responsibility