Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity (Series Q)
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| Rating | : | 4.92 (729 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0822330156 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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Her readings-of everything from Thackeray to "my friends who are thirty"-take on a sensual quality, exploring the connections between "phenomenology and affect" and "what motivates performativity and performance" and "what individual and collective effects are mobilized in their execution." Fearless, challenging and occasionally exhilarating, Sedgwick remains one of the most courageous critics around. Though she's best known for her work in queer theory (Epistemology of the Closet), Sedgwick has always been interested in "performativity"-how people embody linguistic and non-linguistic concepts. Se
"amazing" according to thisniss. This is one of the best works of "post-" theory that I've read, and the essay on paranoia is a much-needed light in the haze of contemporary grad school education. My copy is dog-eared and dirty and filled with underlined passages / scrawled notes to myself (mostly reading "YES!" or "come back. Dr. I. D. McCormick said Suspicious hermeneutics?. Was it not the philosopher and critic Paul Ricoeur who coined the term "hermeneutic of suspicion" --- rather than Foucault?
A pioneer in queer theory and literary studies, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick brings together for the first time in Touching Feeling her most powerful explorations of emotion and expression. What links the work of teaching to the experience of illness? How can shame become an engine for queer politics, performance, and pleasure? Is sexuality more like an affect or a drive? Is paranoia the only realistic epistemology for modern intellectuals? Ultimately, Sedgwick's unfashionable commitment to the truth of happiness propels a book as open-hearted as it is intellectually daring.. Austin, Judith Butler, the psychologist Silvan Tomkins and others—emotion in many forms. In essays that show how her groundbreaking work in queer theory has developed into a deep interest in affect, Sedgw