ISBN10: 0822330156, ISBN13: 9780822330158, [publisher: Duke University Press, North Carolina] Softcover Paperback. 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. In essays that show how her groundbreaking work in queer theory has developed into a deep interest in affect, Sedgwick offers what she calls "tools and techniques for nondualistic thought," in the process touching and transforming such theoretical discourses as psychoanalysis, speech-act theory, Western Buddhism, and the Foucauldian "hermeneutics of suspicion". In prose sometimes sombre, often high-spirited, and always accessible and moving, "Touching Feeling" interrogates - through virtuoso readings of works by Henry James, J.L. Austin, Judith Butler, the psychologist Silvan Tomkins and others - emotion in many forms. 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? Brings together the author's explorations of emotion and expression. This work also offers "tools and techniques for nondualistic thought," and in the process touching and transforming such theoretical discourses as psychoanalysis, speech-act theory, ...
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ISBN10: 0822330156, ISBN13: 9780822330158, [publisher: Duke University Press Books 2003-03-01, Durham, N.C. |London] Softcover Language: ENG
[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2003]

ISBN10: 0822330156, ISBN13: 9780822330158, [publisher: Combined Academic Publ. Jan 2003] Softcover Neuware -'Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick writes with intense precision, and yet her work directs us toward the domain where meaning is music, unquantifiable, enigmatic, nonlinguistic. If the performative speech act, with all its relation to norms and laws, is central to the reception of her work in queer theory, then the performativity of knowledge beyond speech--aesthetic, bodily, affective--is its real topic.'--Lauren Berlant, author of 'The Queen of America Goes to Washington City'
[Zwiesel, Germany] [Publication Year: 2003]
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ISBN10: 0822330156, ISBN13: 9780822330158, [publisher: Combined Academic Publ. Jan 2003] Softcover Neuware -'Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick writes with intense precision, and yet her work directs us toward the domain where meaning is music, unquantifiable, enigmatic, nonlinguistic. If the performative speech act, with all its relation to norms and laws, is central to the reception of her work in queer theory, then the performativity of knowledge beyond speech--aesthetic, bodily, affective--is its real topic.'--Lauren Berlant, author of 'The Queen of America Goes to Washington City' 208 pp. Englisch
[Bergisch Gladbach, Germany] [Publication Year: 2003]
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