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No future : queer theory and the death drive /
Prominent theorist rethinks the psychoanalytic assumptions underlying queer theory.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2004.
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| Colección: | Series Q.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Prominent theorist rethinks the psychoanalytic assumptions underlying queer theory. "In this searing polemic, Lee Edelman outlines a radically uncompromising new ethics of queer theory. His main target is the all-pervasive figure of the child, which he reads as the linchpin of our universal politics of "reproductive futurism." Edelman argues that the child, understood as innocence in need of protection, represents the possibility of the future against which the queer is positioned as the embodiment of a relentlessly narcissistic, antisocial, and future-negating drive. He boldly insists that the efficacy of queerness lies in its very willingness to embrace this refusal of the social and political order. In No Future, Edelman urges queers to abandon the stance of accommodation and accede to their status as figures for the force of a negativity that he links with irony, jouissance, and, ultimately, the death drive itself."--Publisher's description |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 191 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780822385981 0822385988 1283023857 9781283023856 9786613023858 661302385X |