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, Almodóvar, 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.
General
| Imprint: |
Duke University Press
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Theory Q |
| Release date: |
2023 |
| Firstpublished: |
2022 |
| Authors: |
Lee Edelman
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Paperback
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| Pages: |
368 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-4780-1862-9 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
Promotions
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| LSN: |
1-4780-1862-3 |
| Barcode: |
9781478018629 |
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