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PublisherDuke University Press
ISBN-101478018623
ISBN-139781478018629
eBay Product ID (ePID)16057249577
Product Key Features
Number of Pages368 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameBad Education : Why Queer Theory Teaches Us Nothing
Publication Year2023
SubjectLgbt Studies / General, Sociology / General, Semiotics & Theory
TypeTextbook
AuthorLee Edelman
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Social Science
SeriesTheory Q Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight21.7 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2022-002026
ReviewsThis intervention is provocative in its paradoxes. . . . Bad Education thus poses a stunning criticism of all that 'is' by commanding a radical (re)turn to a deeply radical Lacan., Bad Education 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., Edelman's best work, and, even among other works of provocatively imagined, carefully argued, high-octane theory, Bad Education is a masterpiece. ... [It] helps us begin to see how the intellectual work happening under the banner of queer theory in 2023 really has changed., "This intervention is provocative in its paradoxes. . . . Bad Education thus poses a stunning criticism of all that 'is' by commanding a radical (re)turn to a deeply radical Lacan."-- Dylan Lackey , Invisible Culture " Bad Education 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 "Edelman's best work, and, even among other works of provocatively imagined, carefully argued, high-octane theory, Bad Education is a masterpiece. ... [It] helps us begin to see how the intellectual work happening under the banner of queer theory in 2023 really has changed." -- Jordan Alexander Stein , American Literary History "Demanding and dazzling . . . indeed a beautiful book."-- Maral Attar-Zadeh , The Cambridge Review
Dewey Edition23
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal306.7601
Table Of ContentPreface ix Acknowledgments xxi Introduction. Nothing Ventured: Psychoanalysis, Queer Theory, and Afropessimism 1 1. Learning Nothing: Pedro Almodóvar's Bad Education 45 2. Against Survival: Queerness in a Time That's Out of Joint 93 3. Funny/Peculiar/Queer: Michael Haneke's Aesthetic Education 123 4. There Is No Freedom to Enjoy: Harriet Jacobs's Negativity 162 Coda: Nothing Gained: Irony, Incest, Indiscernibility 207 Notes 261 Bibliography 317 Index 333
SynopsisLong awaited after No Future , and making queer theory controversial again, Lee Edelman's Bad Education 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" and in dialogue with feminist and Afropessimist thought, Edelman reads works by Shakespeare, Jacobs, Almodóvar, Lemmons, and Haneke, among others, to show why queer theory's engagement with queerness necessarily results in a bad education that is destined to teach us nothing., Lee Edelman offers a sweeping theorization of queerness as one of the many names for the void around and against which the social order takes shape.
LC Classification NumberHQ76.25.E34 2022
