The polysemous German word Geschlecht -- denoting gender, genre,
kind, kinship, species, race, and somehow also more -- exemplifies
the most pertinent questions of the translational,
transdisciplinary, transhistorical, and transnational structures of
the contemporary humanities: What happens when texts, objects,
practices, and concepts are transferred or displaced from one
language, tradition, temporality, or form to another? What is
readily transposed, what resists relocation, and what precipitate
emerges as distorted or new? Drawing on Barbara Cassin's
transformative remarks on untranslatability, and the activity of
"philosophizing in languages," scholars contributing to The
Geschlecht Complex examine these and other durable queries
concerning the ontological powers of naming, and do so in the light
of recent artistic practices, theoretical innovations, and
philosophical incitements. Combining detailed case studies of
concrete "category problems" in literature, philosophy, media,
cinema, politics, painting, theatre, and the performing arts with a
range of indispensable excerpts from canonical texts -- by notable,
field-defining thinkers such as Apter, Cassin, Cavell, Derrida,
Irigaray, Malabou, and Nancy, among others -- the volume presents
"the Geschlecht complex" as a condition to become aware of, and in
turn, to companionably underwrite any interpretive endeavor.
Historically grounded, yet attuned to the particularities of the
present, the Geschlecht complex becomes an invaluable mode for
thinking and theorizing while ensconced in the urgent immediacy of
pressing concerns, and poised for the inevitable complexities of
categorial naming and genre discernment that await in the so often
inscrutable, translation-resistant twenty-first century.
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