Leo Bersani: A Speculative Introduction

345 Pages·2020·2.885 MB·English

by  Mikko Tuhkanen

Leo Bersani
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Leo Bersani
A Speculative Introduction
Mikko Tuhkanen
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Contents
Acknowledgments viii
List of Abbreviations ix
Introduction 1
Part One Wanting Being
1 Te Psychoanalytic Subject 19
2 What Is an Individual? (A Deleuzean Query) 47
3 Performativity and Speculative Politics 79
4 Te Antisocial Tesis 117
Part Two Te Correspondence Tesis
5 Whither Narcissus? 139
6 Saving Frivolity, or, on Sociability and Spandrels 167
7 Te Virtual Unconscious 191
Part Tree … But Is It Art?
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Acknowledgments
Friends, colleagues, co-conspirators: Eyal Amiran; Leo Bersani; Joan Copjec;
Tim Dean; Elizabeth Freeman; Jay Garcia; Emily Johansen; Tuula Juvonen;
Amy Martin; Ellen McCallum; David McWhirter; Doug Mitchell; Haaris
Naqvi; Mary Ann O’Farrell; Maarit Piipponen; Peter Rehberg; Nicholas
Royle; Ray Ryan; Jenelle Troxell; Olli-Pekka Tuhkanen; Michelle Maria
Wright; folks at Texas A&M University, the University of Tampere, and the
University of Helsinki; and the contributors to Leo Bersani: Queer Teory and
Beyond. And everyone else, everywhere.
A version of Chapter 9 has previously appeared as “Leo Bersani’s Speculative
Aesthetics,” Postmodern Culture 29.3 (May 2019) (https://muse.jhu.edu/
article/744680).
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Abbreviations
AI Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit, Arts of Impoverishment: Beckett,
Rothko, Resnais (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1993)
BB Leo Bersani, Balzac to Beckett: Center and Circumference in French
Fiction (New York: Oxford UP, 1970)
BF Leo Bersani, Baudelaire and Freud (Berkeley: U of California P, 1977)
C Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit, Caravaggio (London: BFI, 1999)
CR Leo Bersani, Te Culture of Redemption (Cambridge: Harvard UP,
1990)
CS Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit, Caravaggio’s Secrets (Cambridge:
MIT P, 1998)
DSM Leo Bersani, Te Death of Stéphane Mallarmé (Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 1982)
FA Leo Bersani, A Future for Astyanax: Character and Desire in
Literature (New York: Columbia UP, 1976)
FoB Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit, Forms of Being: Cinema, Aesthetics,
Subjectivity (London: BFI, 2004)
.de FrB Leo Bersani, Te Freudian Body: Psychoanalysis and Art (New York:
vrese Columbia UP, 1986)
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