Untying Things Together helps to clarify the stakes of the last
fifty years of literary and cultural theory by proposing the idea
of a sexuality of theory. In 1905, Freud published his Three
Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, the book that established
the core psychoanalytic thesis that sexuality is central to
formations of the unconscious. With this book, Eric L. Santner
inverts Freud’s title to take up the sexuality of theory—or,
more exactly, the modes of enjoyment to be found in the kinds of
critical thinking that, since the 1960s, have laid claim to that
ancient word, “theory.” Santner unfolds his argument by
tracking his own relationship with this tradition and the ways his
intellectual and spiritual development has been informed by it.
Untying Things Together is both an intellectual history of major
theoretical paradigms and a call for their
reexamination and renewal. Revisiting many of the topics he has
addressed in previous work, Santner proposes a new way of
conceptualizing the eros of thinking, attuned to how our minds and
bodies individually and collectively incorporate or “encyst” on
a void at the heart of things. Rather than proposing a “return to
theory,” Santner’s book simply employs theory as a way of
further “(un)tying together” the resources of philosophy, art
and literature, theology, psychoanalysis, political thought, and
more.
General
| Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
April 2022 |
| First published: |
2022 |
| Authors: |
Eric L. Santner
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
256 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-226-81646-3 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-226-81646-X |
| Barcode: |
9780226816463 |
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