Distillations: Theory, Ethics, Affect
Autor Professor Mari Rutien Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 aug 2018
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781501333781
ISBN-10: 150133378X
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 150133378X
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Caracteristici
Makes original contributions to major branches of theory, including feminist and queer theory, affect theory, psychoanalytic theory, and literature and ethics
Notă biografică
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).
Cuprins
AcknowledgmentsAuthor's NoteIntroduction1. The Posthumanist Universal: Between Precarity and Rebellion2. The Bad Habits of Critical Theory: On the Rigid Rituals of Thought3. Why Some Things Matter More than Others: A Lacanian Explanation4. Rupture or Resignation? Lacanian Political Theory vs. Affect Theory5. Socrates's Mistake: Lacanians on Love, Lacan on Agálmata8. Is Suffering an Event? Badiou between Nietzsche and FreudBibliography Index
Recenzii
Mari Ruti's is among the most singular and significant voices in theoretical writing today. Her latest book, aptly named, condenses and refines her most recent thinking on the conflictual intersections between Lacanian political theory, affect theory, queer theory, and feminism, providing indispensable reflections on questions of ethics and agency, defiance and desire, the particularities of suffering and the precarities of love. Ruti calls her field 'progressive critical theory, broadly understood,' and Distillations demonstrates that no one understands this field more broadly, and more acutely, than she.
Ruti refuses the false choice between Foucault and Lacan and further cements her position as our leading psychoanalytic thinker of affect. In her precise and exceedingly generous readings of theoretical allies and opponents, Ruti's writing exemplifies the very psychoanalytic ethics she foregrounds-care for the other, attentiveness to the social dimensions of psychic life, and a willingness to place one's most privileged assumptions in doubt in service of creativity, change, and (dare we say it) the opportunity to live a more fulfilling life.
Insofar as there might be a Lacanian struggle with Alain Badiou, this would centre on what explicitly does Badiou preserve of psychoanalysis in his theory of the event? Mari Ruti confronts this question in two ways--first, by reinvigorating and privileging the vulnerability of the subject and second, by masterfully negotiating the complex and precarious fine line between critical theory and continental philosophy. Ruti courageously asserts a confronting and compelling claim--that the existential viability of human suffering is in itself, evental. In refusing Badiou's disappearance of the subject by insisting that given today's uncertain world it is the careful distillation of logic, reason and affect which not only redeems but pivots subjectivisation, Ruti re-establishes the relevance of critical theory as a philosophical investment in the universal. Here we are taken on a wonderful adventure beyond resignation to the chaos of language, a journey which reveals the possibility of a transformative political act. For those grappling with tensions between theory and philosophy Ruti refuses the privileging of either, instead invoking Badiou and other important thinkers (Zizek, McGowan, Butler and Ahmed) in successfully undertaking a challenging thought experiment in which the crisis of the subject, far from being philosophically and politically laid to rest, is resurrected through a focus on subjective suffering and vulnerability. Ruti's experiment provides both a critical reading of and an important extension to Badiou's theory of the event.
In this collection of incisive essays, Mari Ruti distills a number of critical perspectives in contemporary theory on a wide range of questions--universality, suffering, affect, politics, love, enjoyment, and what really matters--but she also blends, mixes, and shakes. The result is a series of potent and innovative cocktails that enable us to see old problems in new ways. Especially refreshing is the way that Ruti resists any one theoretical mold in order to answer to the demands of the question itself.
In Distillations, Mari Ruti negotiates the differences between those critical theorists willing to shatter the subject for the sake of the universal and those willing to dispense with universals for the sake of particular fragile subjects. Locating normative threads running through both approaches, Ruti makes a case for how fragile subjects can and should follow their utopian desires, however tinged with trauma.
Ruti refuses the false choice between Foucault and Lacan and further cements her position as our leading psychoanalytic thinker of affect. In her precise and exceedingly generous readings of theoretical allies and opponents, Ruti's writing exemplifies the very psychoanalytic ethics she foregrounds-care for the other, attentiveness to the social dimensions of psychic life, and a willingness to place one's most privileged assumptions in doubt in service of creativity, change, and (dare we say it) the opportunity to live a more fulfilling life.
Insofar as there might be a Lacanian struggle with Alain Badiou, this would centre on what explicitly does Badiou preserve of psychoanalysis in his theory of the event? Mari Ruti confronts this question in two ways--first, by reinvigorating and privileging the vulnerability of the subject and second, by masterfully negotiating the complex and precarious fine line between critical theory and continental philosophy. Ruti courageously asserts a confronting and compelling claim--that the existential viability of human suffering is in itself, evental. In refusing Badiou's disappearance of the subject by insisting that given today's uncertain world it is the careful distillation of logic, reason and affect which not only redeems but pivots subjectivisation, Ruti re-establishes the relevance of critical theory as a philosophical investment in the universal. Here we are taken on a wonderful adventure beyond resignation to the chaos of language, a journey which reveals the possibility of a transformative political act. For those grappling with tensions between theory and philosophy Ruti refuses the privileging of either, instead invoking Badiou and other important thinkers (Zizek, McGowan, Butler and Ahmed) in successfully undertaking a challenging thought experiment in which the crisis of the subject, far from being philosophically and politically laid to rest, is resurrected through a focus on subjective suffering and vulnerability. Ruti's experiment provides both a critical reading of and an important extension to Badiou's theory of the event.
In this collection of incisive essays, Mari Ruti distills a number of critical perspectives in contemporary theory on a wide range of questions--universality, suffering, affect, politics, love, enjoyment, and what really matters--but she also blends, mixes, and shakes. The result is a series of potent and innovative cocktails that enable us to see old problems in new ways. Especially refreshing is the way that Ruti resists any one theoretical mold in order to answer to the demands of the question itself.
In Distillations, Mari Ruti negotiates the differences between those critical theorists willing to shatter the subject for the sake of the universal and those willing to dispense with universals for the sake of particular fragile subjects. Locating normative threads running through both approaches, Ruti makes a case for how fragile subjects can and should follow their utopian desires, however tinged with trauma.