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Long awaited after No Future, and making queer theory controversial again, Lee Edelmans 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, educations response to queerness: its sublimation of irony into the meaningfulness of a world. Putting queerness in relation to Lacans 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 theorys engagement with queerness necessarily results in a bad education that is destined to teach us nothing.Lee Edelman is Fletcher Professor of English Literature at Tufts University, author of No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive, and coauthor, with Lauren Berlant, of Sex, or the Unbearable, both also published by Duke University Press.Book specifications:Collection: Theory QAuthor: Lee EdelmanCover type: PaperbackPublishing Year: 2023Publishing Month: 1Pages: 368Language: EnglishPublisher: Duke University PressWeight: 816 gDimensions: 30 x 230 x 160
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