The Reification of Desire takes two critical perspectives rarely
analyzed together-formative arguments for Marxism and those that
have been the basis for queer theory-and productively scrutinizes
these ideas both with and against each other to put forth a new
theoretical connection between Marxism and queer studies. Kevin
Floyd brings queer critique to bear on the Marxian categories of
reification and totality and considers the dialectic that frames
the work of Georg Lukacs, Herbert Marcuse, and Fredric Jameson.
Reading the work of these theorists together with influential queer
work by such figures as Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, and
alongside reconsiderations of such texts as The Sun Also Rises and
Midnight Cowboy, Floyd reformulates these two central categories
that have been inseparable from a key strand of Marxist thought and
have marked both its explanatory power and its limitations. Floyd
theorizes a dissociation of sexuality from gender at the beginning
of the twentieth century in terms of reification to claim that this
dissociation is one aspect of a larger dynamic of social
reification enforced by capitalism. Developing a queer examination
of reification and totality, Kevin Floyd ultimately argues that the
insights of queer theory require a fundamental rethinking of both.
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