After Queer Theory: The Limits of Sexual Politics - Brossura

Penney, James

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0745333788 ISBN 13: 9780745333786

Casa editrice: Pluto Press, 2013

Riassunto

After Queer Theory makes the provocative claim that queer theory has run its course, made obsolete by the elaboration of its own logic within capitalism. James Penney argues that far from signaling the end of anti homophobic criticism, however, the end of queer presents the occasion to rethink the relation between sexuality and politics.

Through a critical return to Marxism and psychoanalysis (Freud and Lacan), Penney insists that the way to implant sexuality in the field of political antagonism is paradoxically to abandon the exhausted premise of a politicised sexuality.

After Queer Theory argues that it is necessary to wrest sexuality from the dead-end of identity politics, opening it up to a universal emancipatory struggle beyond the reach of capitalism's powers of commodification.

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Recensione:

""'The audacious and sound thesis of Penney's new book - that the political as such is structured by sexuality - reties the knot between Freud and Marx'"" - Joan Copjec, Brown University ""'Whether you're convinced or outraged by After Queer Theory, Penney's impressive research demands that you engage with it in the most serious terms'"" - Nina Power, University of Roehampton, author of One-Dimensional Woman ""'States that queer theory is now at a crucial turning point, when the only option is to undertake a radical and thorough critique of its presuppositions and present state. No other critics have undertaken such a project at the present time'"" - Professor Clive Thompson, University of Guelph

L'autore:

James Penney teaches cultural theory at Trent University, Canada. He is the author of The Structures of Love: Art and Politics beyond the Transference (2012), and The World of Perversion: Psychoanalysis and the Impossible Absolute of Desire (2006).

James Penney teaches cultural theory at Trent University, Canada. He is the author of The Structures of Love: Art and Politics beyond the Transference (2012), and The World of Perversion: Psychoanalysis and the Impossible Absolute of Desire (2006).

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• Editore: Pluto Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0745333788
• ISBN 13: 9780745333786
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224