Last year's impeachment of President Bill Clinton demonstrated the
paradox, but did not begin to explain it.
How is it that "private matters" are analyzed endlessly in public
forums on a daily basis? Why is it assumed that "getting a life"
means having a private relationship? Intended to unravel some of
the tangled relations that fall under the broad category of
"intimacy," this provocative collection of sixteen essays
articulates the ways in which intimate lives are connected with the
institutions, ideologies, and desires that organize people's
worlds.
Locating its domain in the familiar spaces of friendship, love,
sex, family, and feeling "at home," Intimacy also examines the
estrangement, betrayal, loneliness, and even violence that may
accompany the demise of relationships, both personal and political.
These include intimacies among strangers, such as happens in times
of national scandal or habits of everyday life. The contributors to
this volume traverse many disciplines and cultures, tracking the
processes by which intimate lives absorb and repel the dominant
rhetoric, law, ethics, and ideologies of public spheres. Drawing on
examples from contemporary culture, history, art, literature, and
music, this book illuminates the ways in which intimacy has become
linked with stories of citizenship, capitalism, aesthetic forms,
and the writing of history. As it challenges conventional notions
of private life, Intimacy is sure to spark controversy about its
institutions as well.
Some of these essays in this book were previously published in an
award-winning issue of the journal "Critical Inquiry."
Contributors include Lauren Berlant, Svetlana Boym, Steven Feld,
Deborah R. Grayson, Michael Hanchard, Dagmar Herzog, Annamarie
Jagose, Laura Kipnis, Laura Letinsky, Biddy Martin, Maureen McLane,
Mary Poovey, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Eve Kosovsky Sedgwick, Joel
Snyder, Candace Vogler, Michael Warner, and others.
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