{"product_id":"bad-education-9781478015970","title":"Bad Education","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLong awaited after \u003ci\u003eNo Future\u003c\/i\u003e, and making queer theory controversial again, Lee Edelman’s \u003ci\u003eBad Education\u003c\/i\u003e proposes a queerness without positive identity—a queerness understood as a figural name for the void, itself unnamable, around which the social order takes shape. Like Blackness, woman, incest, and sex, queerness, as Edelman explains it, designates the antagonism, the structuring negativity, preventing that order from achieving coherence. But when certain types of persons get read as literalizing queerness, the negation of their negativity can seem to resolve the social antagonism and totalize community. By translating the nothing of queerness into the something of “the queer,” the order of meaning defends against the senselessness that undoes it, thus mirroring, Edelman argues, education’s response to queerness: its sublimation of irony into the meaningfulness of a world. Putting queerness in relation to Lacan’s “ab-sens” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This intervention is provocative in its paradoxes. . . . \u003ci\u003eBad Education\u003c\/i\u003e thus poses a stunning criticism of all that ‘is’ by commanding a radical (re)turn to a deeply radical Lacan.\" -- Dylan Lackey * Invisible Culture *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBad Education\u003c\/i\u003e expands on Edelman’s widely influential claims in No Future, clarifying his framework and answering his critics. . . . Edelman doubles down on abstraction while engaging deeply with the work of recent Afro-pessimist critics. Refusing the charge that by pitching his argument at the level of structure rather than social reality he has disregarded race, Edelman instead argues that Blackness, like queerness, should be apprehended primarily as structure.\" -- Heather Love * Critical Inquiry *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xxi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Nothing Ventured: Psychoanalysis, Queer Theory, and Afropessimism  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Learning Nothing: Pedro Almodóvar’s \u003ci\u003eBad Education\u003c\/i\u003e  45\u003cbr\u003e 2. Against Survival: Queerness in a Time That’s Out of Joint  93\u003cbr\u003e 3. Funny\/Peculiar\/Queer: Michael Haneke’s Aesthetic Education  123\u003cbr\u003e 4. There Is No Freedom to Enjoy: Harriet Jacobs’s Negativity  162\u003cbr\u003e Coda: Nothing Gained: Irony, Incest, Indiscernibility  207\u003cbr\u003e Notes  261\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  317\u003cbr\u003e Index  333","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409000636759,"sku":"9781478015970","price":73.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478015970.jpg?v=1730505040","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/bad-education-9781478015970","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}