Materializing Queer Desire

2010-03-30 Literary Criticism

Author : Elisa Glick
Release : 2010-03-30
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Download or read book Materializing Queer Desire written by Elisa Glick. This book was released on 2010-03-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the queer subject come to occupy such a central, and in many respects, contradictory place in the modern world of the early twentieth century? What role has capitalism played in the development of modern gay and lesbian identities? Materializing Queer Desire focuses on the figure of the dandy to explore how and why gay and lesbian subjects became heroes of modern life. Elisa Glick argues that the gay subject emerged out of the specifically modern, capitalist contradiction between the public world of production and industry and the private world of consumption and pleasure. Boldly bringing modernism into dialogue with Marxist and queer theory, Glick offers an innovative, materialist account of modern queer consciousness that challenges tendencies to oppose "private" eroticism and the systems of value that govern "public" interests. In the process she illuminates the connections between aesthetic, sexual, and social formations in modern life—between modernity's disruptive, "queer" desires and their unfolding in an increasingly rationalized society.

Reification

2008-01-28 Philosophy

Author : Axel Honneth
Release : 2008-01-28
Genre : Philosophy
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Download or read book Reification written by Axel Honneth. This book was released on 2008-01-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these original and imaginative essays, delivered as the Tanner Lectures at the University of California, Berkeley in 2005, the distinguished third-generation Frankfurt School philosopher Axel Honneth attempts to rescue the concept of reification by recasting it in terms of the philosophy of recognition he has been developing over the past two decades.

Towards a Gay Communism

2018 Gay liberation movement

Author : Mario Mieli
Release : 2018
Genre : Gay liberation movement
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Download or read book Towards a Gay Communism written by Mario Mieli. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First publication in English of a groundbreaking book of revolutionary queer theory.

Lukács’s Phenomenology of Capitalism

2018-08-14 Political Science

Author : Richard Westerman
Release : 2018-08-14
Genre : Political Science
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Download or read book Lukács’s Phenomenology of Capitalism written by Richard Westerman. This book was released on 2018-08-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a radical new interpretation of Georg Lukács’s History and Class Consciousness, showing for the first time how the philosophical framework for his analysis of society was laid in the drafts of a philosophy of art that he planned but never completed before he converted to Marxism. Reading Lukács’s work through the so-called “Heidelberg Aesthetics” reveals for the first time a range of unsuspected influences on his thought, such as Edmund Husserl, Emil Lask, and Alois Riegl; it also offers a theory of subjectivity within social relations that avoids many of the problems of earlier readings of his text. At a time when Lukács’s reputation is once more on the rise, this bold new reading helps revitalize his thought in ways that help it speak to contemporary concerns.

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