Bad education : why queer theory teaches us nothing /

Bad education : why queer theory teaches us nothing /

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Author / Creator:	Edelman, Lee, 1953- author.
Imprint:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2022. ©2022
Description:	xxiii, 344 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Theory Q Theory Q.
Subject:	Queer theory. Homosexuality -- Philosophy. Homosexuality -- Social aspects. Homosexuality -- Philosophy. Homosexuality -- Social aspects. Queer theory.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12971357

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Varying Form of Title:	Why queer theory teaches us nothing
ISBN:	9781478015970 1478015977 9781478018629 1478018623 9781478023227
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"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, Almodovar, 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"--
Other form:	Online version: Edelman, Lee, 1953- Bad education Durham : Duke University Press, 2022 9781478023227

Table of Contents:

Nothing Ventured: Psychoanalysis, Queer Theory, and Afropessimism
Learning Nothing: La Mala Educación
Against Survival: Queerness in a Time That's Out of Joint
Funny/Peculiar/Queer: Michael Haneke's Aesthetic Education
There Is No Freedom to Enjoy: Harriet Jacobs's Negativity
Nothing Gained: Irony, Incest, Indiscernibility.