Distillations

Theory, Ethics, Affect

Professor Mari Ruti (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2018
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-5013-3378-1 (ISBN)

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Distilling into concise and focused formulations many of the main ideas that Mari Ruti has sought to articulate throughout her writing career, this book reflects on the general state of contemporary theory as it relates to posthumanist ethics, political resistance, subjectivity, agency, desire, and bad feelings such as anxiety. It offers a critique of progressive theory’s tendency to advance extreme models of revolt that have little real-life applicability. The chapters move fluidly between several theoretical registers, the most obvious of these being continental philosophy, psychoanalytic theory, Butlerian ethics, affect theory, and queer theory. One of the central aims of Distillations is to explore the largely uncharted territory between psychoanalysis and affect theory, which are frequently pitted against each other as hopelessly incompatible, but which Ruti shows can be brought into a productive dialogue.

Mari Ruti is Distinguished Professor of Critical Theory and of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada, and, in 2016-2017, Visiting Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University, USA (a position she also held in 2014-2015). She is the author of eleven books, including Between Levinas and Lacan (Bloomsbury, 2015), The Age of Scientific Sexism (Bloomsbury, 2015), and The Ethics of Opting Out (2017). She is co-series editor of the book series Psychoanalytic Horizons (Bloomsbury).

Acknowledgments
Author's Note
Introduction
1. The Posthumanist Universal: Between Precarity and Rebellion
2. The Bad Habits of Critical Theory: On the Rigid Rituals of Thought
3. Why Some Things Matter More than Others: A Lacanian Explanation
4. Rupture or Resignation? Lacanian Political Theory vs. Affect Theory
5. Socrates's Mistake: Lacanians on Love, Lacan on Agálmata
8. Is Suffering an Event? Badiou between Nietzsche and Freud
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	12.09.2018
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 214 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-5013-3378-X / 150133378X
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-3378-1 / 9781501333781
Zustand	Neuware