Bad education : why queer theory teaches us nothing / Lee Edelman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edelman, Lee, 1953- author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Theory Q

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Queer theory.

Homosexuality--Philosophy.

Homosexuality.

Homosexuality--Social aspects.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 344 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Why queer theory teaches us nothing

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

data file

Summary:

"Long 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, Almodovar, 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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Nothing Ventured: Psychoanalysis, Queer Theory, and Afropessimism

Learning Nothing: La Mala Educación

Against Survival: Queerness in a Time That's Out of Joint

Funny/Peculiar/Queer: Michael Haneke's Aesthetic Education

There Is No Freedom to Enjoy: Harriet Jacobs's Negativity

Nothing Gained: Irony, Incest, Indiscernibility.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Edelman, Lee, 1953- Bad education.

ISBN:

9781478023227

1478023228

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.