{"product_id":"leo-bersani-a-speculative-introduction-9781623563592","title":"Leo Bersani: A Speculative Introduction","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor the past 60 years, Leo Bersani has inspired, resisted, guided, and challenged scholarly work in the fields of literary criticism, queer theory, cultural studies, psychoanalytic theory, and film and visual studies. Moving across an impressive range of sources, Mikko Tuhkanen seeks out the “fundamental notes”—the questions that we find and refind—in Bersani’s extensive oeuvre across the decades.  The chapters explore Bersani’s engagement with psychoanalytic theory (Freud, Laplanche, Klein, Lacan), French and American modernist fiction (Proust, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, James, Beckett), poststructuralist theory (Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, Guattari, Blanchot), queer theory (Butler, Edelman), and the visual arts (Caravaggio, Almodóvar, Pasolini, Malick, Dumont). This first introduction to Bersani's work provides a chronological overview of his thought and details his contributions to literary studies and critical theory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeo Bersani’s greatness is tied to a resolutely interlocutory ethics—to his generous thinking-with (\u003ci\u003ewith\u003c\/i\u003e Sade, Proust, Freud, Laplanche, Deleuze, Foucault, Beckett, Dumont; \u003ci\u003ewith\u003c\/i\u003e art by way of doing theory and \u003ci\u003ewith \u003c\/i\u003etheory by way of making a kind of art). Mikko Tuhkanen honors this half-century-long project by taking Bersani as his interlocutor to explore the ambivalences, tensions, irresolvable questions, but also rhythms, fascinations, and, yes, seductions of twentieth-century continental theory. Tuhkanen is a worthy Beatrice, guiding us through the paradisiacal riches of Bersani’s beautiful, rigorous, and gloriously destabilizing readings. * Eugenie Brinkema, author of The Forms of the Affects *\u003cbr\u003eThis illuminating overview is both a lucid introduction to Leo Bersani's thought and a bold reinterpretation of it. Highlighting the patterns that have shaped Bersani's rich and complex work across the span of his long career, Tuhkanen provides a new framework for understanding his influential ideas about sex and sexuality in relation to his equally compelling insights about aesthetics, ontology, and ethics. * Brian Glavey, Associate Professor, English Language and Literature, University of South Carolina, USA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction   \u003cb\u003ePart I  Wanting Being  \u003c\/b\u003e 1. The Psychoanalytic Subject   2. What Is an Individual? (A Deleuzean Query)   3. Performativity and Speculative Politics   4. The Antisocial Thesis   \u003cb\u003ePart II  The Correspondence Thesis \u003c\/b\u003e  5. Whither Narcissus?   6. Saving Frivolity, or, On Sociability and Spandrels   7. The Virtual Unconscious   \u003cb\u003ePart\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eIII   . . . But Is It Art? \u003c\/b\u003e  8. Fascinating Rhythm   9. Leo Bersani’s Speculative Aesthetics \u003ci\u003eWorks Cited  Index\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51020136841559,"sku":"9781623563592","price":23.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781623563592.jpg?v=1750782538","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/leo-bersani-a-speculative-introduction-9781623563592","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}