Is the rectum a grave?

The University of Chicago Press

2009

x, 224 p.

978-0226043548

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.

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.

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