The body in French queer thought from Wittig to Preciado : queer permeability /: queer permeability. (2020)
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- Book
- Title:
- The body in French queer thought from Wittig to Preciado : queer permeability /: queer permeability. (2020)
- Main Title:
- The body in French queer thought from Wittig to Preciado : queer permeability
- Further Information:
- Note: Elliot Evans.
- Authors:
- Evans, Elliot, 1986-
- Contents:
- List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction A new wave of French queer thought French politics, gay marriage, and ‘la théorie du genre’ French theory, praxis, and the particular: a ‘queer made in France’ Material bodies and queer permeability 1 Bodies beyond Language or Reason: The legacy of Descartes’s Dualism in Poststructuralist accounts of the body Descartes’s disembodied philosophy The Cartesian legacy in queer thought? Judith Butler and the ‘linguistic monism’ of French poststructuralism Pre- and anti-Cartesian approaches to the philosopher’s body: Jean-Luc Nancy and Michel de Montaigne Nancy’s touch/separation and exscription 2. Queer permeability in Paul B. Preciado’s literature of entanglement: narrating the posthuman self, performing philosophy Rethinking performativity Performing theory Décapiter la philosophie : undoing philosophy, undoing the philosopher-subject A literature of entanglement, or ‘posthuman life writing’ Queer permeability 3. Writing as a ‘war machine’: Monique Wittig’s textual materialism and bodily metaphor Context: reception, reading, and opposition From heterosexual society to heterosexual matrix: Butler’s discursivist misreading of Wittig’s textual materialism Material language: literature as a ‘Trojan Horse’ Pronouns as war machines The material body: universalism, language, and metaphor in Virgile, Non ; Les Guérillères ; Le Corps lesbian 4. The constructed body of ORLAN’s 'Art Charnel' ORLAN’s body of work: historical, theoretical,List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction A new wave of French queer thought French politics, gay marriage, and ‘la théorie du genre’ French theory, praxis, and the particular: a ‘queer made in France’ Material bodies and queer permeability 1 Bodies beyond Language or Reason: The legacy of Descartes’s Dualism in Poststructuralist accounts of the body Descartes’s disembodied philosophy The Cartesian legacy in queer thought? Judith Butler and the ‘linguistic monism’ of French poststructuralism Pre- and anti-Cartesian approaches to the philosopher’s body: Jean-Luc Nancy and Michel de Montaigne Nancy’s touch/separation and exscription 2. Queer permeability in Paul B. Preciado’s literature of entanglement: narrating the posthuman self, performing philosophy Rethinking performativity Performing theory Décapiter la philosophie : undoing philosophy, undoing the philosopher-subject A literature of entanglement, or ‘posthuman life writing’ Queer permeability 3. Writing as a ‘war machine’: Monique Wittig’s textual materialism and bodily metaphor Context: reception, reading, and opposition From heterosexual society to heterosexual matrix: Butler’s discursivist misreading of Wittig’s textual materialism Material language: literature as a ‘Trojan Horse’ Pronouns as war machines The material body: universalism, language, and metaphor in Virgile, Non ; Les Guérillères ; Le Corps lesbian 4. The constructed body of ORLAN’s 'Art Charnel' ORLAN’s body of work: historical, theoretical, and artistic context Cartesianism, bodies, and texts: Femme avec Tête (1996) Constructions of sexual difference: Étude Documentaire: La Tête de la Méduse (1978) Approaching the Real: the Death’s Head Conclusion - Queer Directions: lessons from the French Context The lesson of French Republican universalism: the importance of the particular Politics and materiality: queer rage Rethinking theory: breaking the rules, breaking the ‘law’ Making space for utopia … (more)
- Edition:
- 1st
- Publisher Details:
- London : Routledge
- Publication Date:
- 2020
- Extent:
- 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
- Subjects:
- 128.6
Human body (Philosophy) -- France
Philosophy, French
Queer theory -- France - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9780429632433
9780429633928
9780429630941
9780429030840 - Related ISBNs:
- 9780367142360
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