The Weather in Proust
Autor Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Editat de Jonathan Goldberg, Michael Moonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 dec 2011
Găsim în The Weather in Proust o sinteză finală a preocupărilor care au definit cariera lui Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, volumul fiind structurat în jurul eseului eponim care analizează rețelele de relații proustiene prin prisma meteorologiei și a afectului. Reținem modul în care autoarea propune exerciții de lectură reparatorie, îndepărtându-se de hermeneutica suspiciunii pentru a explora „micile divinități” ale lui Cavafy și Proust. Structura cărții, organizată în nouă eseuri dense, urmărește o progresie de la critica literară pură spre o intersecție între psihanaliza lui Melanie Klein și teoria minții, culminând cu reflecții despre budism și finitudine.
Suntem de părere că includerea celor 37 de ilustrații color, care prezintă arta textilă a autoarei, oferă o perspectivă vizuală esențială asupra conceptului de „practicare a vidului”. Această lucrare reprezintă o alternativă teoretică la Reading Sedgwick de Lauren Berlant pentru cursurile de studii de gen și teorie literară, cu avantajul de a oferi acces direct la vocea nefiltrată a autoarei în ultimii săi ani de viață. Dacă în The Coherence of Gothic Conventions Sedgwick se concentra pe structurile formale ale genului, aici observăm o tranziție către o abordare mult mai personală și fenomenologică, similară cu direcția începută în Touching Feeling.
În acest volum, teoria queer este recalibrată prin lentila afectului și a corporalității, oferind instrumente pentru o gândire non-dualistă. Este o resursă academică ce completează moștenirea lăsată de Tendencies, aducând în discuție modele psihologice non-oedipiene și explorând modul în care obiectele și arta pot media experiența suferinței și a realizării de sine.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780822351580
ISBN-10: 0822351587
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: 37 colour illustrations
Dimensiuni: 151 x 233 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Duke University Press
ISBN-10: 0822351587
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: 37 colour illustrations
Dimensiuni: 151 x 233 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Duke University Press
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Recomandăm această carte cercetătorilor în literatură și teorie critică care doresc să înțeleagă evoluția finală a gândirii lui Eve Sedgwick. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă unică asupra intersecției dintre psihanaliză, budism și estetică proustiană. Este o lectură esențială pentru a vedea cum teoria afectului poate fi aplicată nu doar ca instrument critic, ci și ca mod de viață în fața vulnerabilității.
Despre autor
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick a fost profesor emerit de engleză la City University of New York Graduate Center și este considerată una dintre figurile fondatoare ale teoriei queer. Opera sa vastă, care include titluri de referință precum Between Men și Shame and Its Sisters, a transformat studiile literare prin introducerea conceptelor de homosocialitate și afectivitate. În ultima parte a vieții, interesele sale s-au extins către arta textilă, budismul tibetan și scrierea autobiografică, elemente care se reflectă profund în această colecție postumă editată de colaboratorii săi apropiați.
Descriere scurtă
The Weather in Proust gathers pieces written by the eminent critic and theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick in the last decade of her life, as she worked toward a book on Proust. This book takes its title from the first essay, a startlingly original interpretation of Proust. By way of Neo-platonism, Buddhism, and the work of Melanie Klein, Sedgwick establishes the sense of refreshment and surprise that the author of the Recherche affords his readers. Proust also figures in pieces on the poetry of C. P. Cavafy, object relations, affect theory, and Sedgwicks textile art practices. More explicitly connected to her role as a pioneering queer theorist are an exuberant attack against reactionary refusals of the work of Guy Hocquenghem and talks in which she lays out her central ideas about sexuality and her concerns about the direction of US queer theory. Sedgwick lived for more than a dozen years with a diagnosis of terminal cancer; its implications informed her later writing and thinking, as well as her spiritual and artistic practices. In the books final and most personal essay, she reflects on the realization of her impending death. Featuring thirty-seven colour images of her art, The Weather in Proust offers a comprehensive view of Sedgwicks later work, underscoring its diversity and coherence.
Recenzii
"...nine solid, finished-feeling essays on topics that preoccupied Sedgwick throughout her prolific career. These topics which include webs of relation in Proust, affect theory, non-Oedipal models of psychology (especially those offered by Melanie Klein, Sandor Ferenczi, Michael Balint, Silvan Tomkins, and Buddhism), non-dualistic thinking and antiseparatisms of all kinds, and itinerant, idiosyncratic, profound meditations on depression, illness, textiles, queerness, and mortality will be familiar to anyone who has spent time with Sedgwicks previous work, which includes the groundbreaking Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (1985), Epistemology of the Closet (1990), Tendencies (1993), and Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity (2003)." Maggie Nelson, Los Angeles Review of Books
This selection of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwicks unpublished papers and talks covers a wide range, from lively fragments of a projected book on Proust, to Cavafy, psychoanalysis and Buddhism. They illuminate Sedgwicks attempt to establish an epistemology of the individual subject.... Sedgwick had a ludic mind which engages the reader, even when one finds that her concepts are not those one would have used oneself. In the papers dealing with feminist and gay theory, her project is, it seems, to show the limits of psychoanalysis in describing the individual, for all theory must respect the basic axiom that every human being is different from everyone else. - Allen Thiher, Times Literary Supplement, September 21st 2012
The Weather in Proust is not just a random final collection of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwicks essays. It is a frank and flowing analysis of the conflict of pleasure and destruction that shapes our attachment to life; it is an account of the deities that artists invent to embody these dramatic life forces; and, perhaps above all, it is what she calls a fantasy book, a stimulus to follow out affect beyond the conventions of thought. Like the artists and psychoanalysts whom Sedgwick seeks out, this work provides a calm voice, so contagious and easy to internalize that a new mental faculty emerges: through crystalline prose, clear-sighted formulations, and an unsurpassed aesthetic patience, Sedgwicks engagement with sexuality, politics, and reading closely constitutes a sublime teaching. Lauren Berlant, author of Cruel Optimism
With breathtaking range and brilliance, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick once again, and in myriad ways, reminds us of the complex relationality of affective life. These extraordinary essays give life to her claim that something about queer is inextinguishable. Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor, University of California, Berkeley
"The Weather in Proust is a collection of nine essays, five of which were intended to become part of a book on Proust and an additional four that encompass Sedgwicks three decades of queer scholarship. The book is a meeting of the old and the new, both a retrospective on this founding mother of queer theory and a glimpse into what occupied her mind in the final years of her life. In Proust, Sedgwick finds a kindred spirit. Both writers are notorious for their excruciatingly detailed and nuanced literary dissections of the hidden crevasses of human desire and esoteric references to spirituality, philosophy, and classics.... Great authors live as long as their ideas remain relevant to the present world, and given the current political and cultural landscape, Sedgwicks philosophies make her as alive as she has ever been." Chase Dimock, Lambda Literary Review, April 15th 2012
"...nine solid, finished-feeling essays on topics that preoccupied Sedgwick throughout her prolific career. These topics - which include webs of relation in Proust, affect theory, non-Oedipal models of psychology (especially those offered by Melanie Klein, Sandor Ferenczi, Michael Balint, Silvan Tomkins, and Buddhism), non-dualistic thinking and antiseparatisms of all kinds, and itinerant, idiosyncratic, profound meditations on depression, illness, textiles, queerness, and mortality - will be familiar to anyone who has spent time with Sedgwick's previous work, which includes the groundbreaking Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (1985), Epistemology of the Closet (1990), Tendencies (1993), and Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity (2003)." Maggie Nelson, Los Angeles Review of Books "This selection of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's unpublished papers and talks covers a wide range, from lively fragments of a projected book on Proust, to Cavafy, psychoanalysis and Buddhism. They illuminate Sedgwick's attempt to establish an epistemology of the individual subject... Sedgwick had a ludic mind which engages the reader, even when one finds that her concepts are not those one would have used oneself. In the papers dealing with feminist and gay theory, her project is, it seems, to show the limits of psychoanalysis in describing the individual, for all theory must respect the basic axiom that every human being is different from everyone else." - Allen Thiher, Times Literary Supplement, September 21st 2012 "The Weather in Proust is not just a random final collection of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's essays. It is a frank and flowing analysis of the conflict of pleasure and destruction that shapes our attachment to life; it is an account of the deities that artists invent to embody these dramatic life forces; and, perhaps above all, it is what she calls a 'fantasy book,' a stimulus to follow out affect beyond the conventions of thought. Like the artists and psychoanalysts whom Sedgwick seeks out, this work provides a 'calm voice, so contagious and easy to internalize' that 'a new mental faculty' emerges: through crystalline prose, clear-sighted formulations, and an unsurpassed aesthetic patience, Sedgwick's engagement with sexuality, politics, and reading closely constitutes a sublime teaching." Lauren Berlant, author of Cruel Optimism "With breathtaking range and brilliance, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick once again, and in myriad ways, reminds us of the complex relationality of affective life. These extraordinary essays give life to her claim that something about queer is inextinguishable." Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor, University of California, Berkeley "The Weather in Proust is a collection of nine essays, five of which were intended to become part of a book on Proust and an additional four that encompass Sedgwick's three decades of queer scholarship. The book is a meeting of the old and the new, both a retrospective on this founding mother of queer theory and a glimpse into what occupied her mind in the final years of her life. In Proust, Sedgwick finds a kindred spirit. Both writers are notorious for their excruciatingly detailed and nuanced literary dissections of the hidden crevasses of human desire and esoteric references to spirituality, philosophy, and classics... Great authors live as long as their ideas remain relevant to the present world, and given the current political and cultural landscape, Sedgwick's philosophies make her as alive as she has ever been." Chase Dimock, Lambda Literary Review, April 15th 2012
"...nine solid, finished-feeling essays on topics that preoccupied Sedgwick throughout her prolific career. These topics - which include webs of relation in Proust, affect theory, non-Oedipal models of psychology (especially those offered by Melanie Klein, Sandor Ferenczi, Michael Balint, Silvan Tomkins, and Buddhism), non-dualistic thinking and antiseparatisms of all kinds, and itinerant, idiosyncratic, profound meditations on depression, illness, textiles, queerness, and mortality - will be familiar to anyone who has spent time with Sedgwick's previous work, which includes the groundbreaking Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (1985), Epistemology of the Closet (1990), Tendencies (1993), and Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity (2003)." Maggie Nelson, Los Angeles Review of Books "The Weather in Proust is not just a random final collection of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's essays. It is a frank and flowing analysis of the conflict of pleasure and destruction that shapes our attachment to life; it is an account of the deities that artists invent to embody these dramatic life forces; and, perhaps above all, it is what she calls a 'fantasy book,' a stimulus to follow out affect beyond the conventions of thought. Like the artists and psychoanalysts whom Sedgwick seeks out, this work provides a 'calm voice, so contagious and easy to internalize' that 'a new mental faculty' emerges: through crystalline prose, clear-sighted formulations, and an unsurpassed aesthetic patience, Sedgwick's engagement with sexuality, politics, and reading closely constitutes a sublime teaching." Lauren Berlant, author of Cruel Optimism "With breathtaking range and brilliance, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick once again, and in myriad ways, reminds us of the complex relationality of affective life. These extraordinary essays give life to her claim that something about queer is inextinguishable." Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor, University of California, Berkeley "The Weather in Proust is a collection of nine essays, five of which were intended to become part of a book on Proust and an additional four that encompass Sedgwick's three decades of queer scholarship. The book is a meeting of the old and the new, both a retrospective on this founding mother of queer theory and a glimpse into what occupied her mind in the final years of her life. In Proust, Sedgwick finds a kindred spirit. Both writers are notorious for their excruciatingly detailed and nuanced literary dissections of the hidden crevasses of human desire and esoteric references to spirituality, philosophy, and classics... Great authors live as long as their ideas remain relevant to the present world, and given the current political and cultural landscape, Sedgwick's philosophies make her as alive as she has ever been." Chase Dimock, Lambda Literary Review, April 15th 2012
This selection of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwicks unpublished papers and talks covers a wide range, from lively fragments of a projected book on Proust, to Cavafy, psychoanalysis and Buddhism. They illuminate Sedgwicks attempt to establish an epistemology of the individual subject.... Sedgwick had a ludic mind which engages the reader, even when one finds that her concepts are not those one would have used oneself. In the papers dealing with feminist and gay theory, her project is, it seems, to show the limits of psychoanalysis in describing the individual, for all theory must respect the basic axiom that every human being is different from everyone else. - Allen Thiher, Times Literary Supplement, September 21st 2012
The Weather in Proust is not just a random final collection of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwicks essays. It is a frank and flowing analysis of the conflict of pleasure and destruction that shapes our attachment to life; it is an account of the deities that artists invent to embody these dramatic life forces; and, perhaps above all, it is what she calls a fantasy book, a stimulus to follow out affect beyond the conventions of thought. Like the artists and psychoanalysts whom Sedgwick seeks out, this work provides a calm voice, so contagious and easy to internalize that a new mental faculty emerges: through crystalline prose, clear-sighted formulations, and an unsurpassed aesthetic patience, Sedgwicks engagement with sexuality, politics, and reading closely constitutes a sublime teaching. Lauren Berlant, author of Cruel Optimism
With breathtaking range and brilliance, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick once again, and in myriad ways, reminds us of the complex relationality of affective life. These extraordinary essays give life to her claim that something about queer is inextinguishable. Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor, University of California, Berkeley
"The Weather in Proust is a collection of nine essays, five of which were intended to become part of a book on Proust and an additional four that encompass Sedgwicks three decades of queer scholarship. The book is a meeting of the old and the new, both a retrospective on this founding mother of queer theory and a glimpse into what occupied her mind in the final years of her life. In Proust, Sedgwick finds a kindred spirit. Both writers are notorious for their excruciatingly detailed and nuanced literary dissections of the hidden crevasses of human desire and esoteric references to spirituality, philosophy, and classics.... Great authors live as long as their ideas remain relevant to the present world, and given the current political and cultural landscape, Sedgwicks philosophies make her as alive as she has ever been." Chase Dimock, Lambda Literary Review, April 15th 2012
"...nine solid, finished-feeling essays on topics that preoccupied Sedgwick throughout her prolific career. These topics - which include webs of relation in Proust, affect theory, non-Oedipal models of psychology (especially those offered by Melanie Klein, Sandor Ferenczi, Michael Balint, Silvan Tomkins, and Buddhism), non-dualistic thinking and antiseparatisms of all kinds, and itinerant, idiosyncratic, profound meditations on depression, illness, textiles, queerness, and mortality - will be familiar to anyone who has spent time with Sedgwick's previous work, which includes the groundbreaking Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (1985), Epistemology of the Closet (1990), Tendencies (1993), and Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity (2003)." Maggie Nelson, Los Angeles Review of Books "This selection of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's unpublished papers and talks covers a wide range, from lively fragments of a projected book on Proust, to Cavafy, psychoanalysis and Buddhism. They illuminate Sedgwick's attempt to establish an epistemology of the individual subject... Sedgwick had a ludic mind which engages the reader, even when one finds that her concepts are not those one would have used oneself. In the papers dealing with feminist and gay theory, her project is, it seems, to show the limits of psychoanalysis in describing the individual, for all theory must respect the basic axiom that every human being is different from everyone else." - Allen Thiher, Times Literary Supplement, September 21st 2012 "The Weather in Proust is not just a random final collection of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's essays. It is a frank and flowing analysis of the conflict of pleasure and destruction that shapes our attachment to life; it is an account of the deities that artists invent to embody these dramatic life forces; and, perhaps above all, it is what she calls a 'fantasy book,' a stimulus to follow out affect beyond the conventions of thought. Like the artists and psychoanalysts whom Sedgwick seeks out, this work provides a 'calm voice, so contagious and easy to internalize' that 'a new mental faculty' emerges: through crystalline prose, clear-sighted formulations, and an unsurpassed aesthetic patience, Sedgwick's engagement with sexuality, politics, and reading closely constitutes a sublime teaching." Lauren Berlant, author of Cruel Optimism "With breathtaking range and brilliance, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick once again, and in myriad ways, reminds us of the complex relationality of affective life. These extraordinary essays give life to her claim that something about queer is inextinguishable." Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor, University of California, Berkeley "The Weather in Proust is a collection of nine essays, five of which were intended to become part of a book on Proust and an additional four that encompass Sedgwick's three decades of queer scholarship. The book is a meeting of the old and the new, both a retrospective on this founding mother of queer theory and a glimpse into what occupied her mind in the final years of her life. In Proust, Sedgwick finds a kindred spirit. Both writers are notorious for their excruciatingly detailed and nuanced literary dissections of the hidden crevasses of human desire and esoteric references to spirituality, philosophy, and classics... Great authors live as long as their ideas remain relevant to the present world, and given the current political and cultural landscape, Sedgwick's philosophies make her as alive as she has ever been." Chase Dimock, Lambda Literary Review, April 15th 2012
"...nine solid, finished-feeling essays on topics that preoccupied Sedgwick throughout her prolific career. These topics - which include webs of relation in Proust, affect theory, non-Oedipal models of psychology (especially those offered by Melanie Klein, Sandor Ferenczi, Michael Balint, Silvan Tomkins, and Buddhism), non-dualistic thinking and antiseparatisms of all kinds, and itinerant, idiosyncratic, profound meditations on depression, illness, textiles, queerness, and mortality - will be familiar to anyone who has spent time with Sedgwick's previous work, which includes the groundbreaking Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (1985), Epistemology of the Closet (1990), Tendencies (1993), and Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity (2003)." Maggie Nelson, Los Angeles Review of Books "The Weather in Proust is not just a random final collection of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's essays. It is a frank and flowing analysis of the conflict of pleasure and destruction that shapes our attachment to life; it is an account of the deities that artists invent to embody these dramatic life forces; and, perhaps above all, it is what she calls a 'fantasy book,' a stimulus to follow out affect beyond the conventions of thought. Like the artists and psychoanalysts whom Sedgwick seeks out, this work provides a 'calm voice, so contagious and easy to internalize' that 'a new mental faculty' emerges: through crystalline prose, clear-sighted formulations, and an unsurpassed aesthetic patience, Sedgwick's engagement with sexuality, politics, and reading closely constitutes a sublime teaching." Lauren Berlant, author of Cruel Optimism "With breathtaking range and brilliance, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick once again, and in myriad ways, reminds us of the complex relationality of affective life. These extraordinary essays give life to her claim that something about queer is inextinguishable." Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor, University of California, Berkeley "The Weather in Proust is a collection of nine essays, five of which were intended to become part of a book on Proust and an additional four that encompass Sedgwick's three decades of queer scholarship. The book is a meeting of the old and the new, both a retrospective on this founding mother of queer theory and a glimpse into what occupied her mind in the final years of her life. In Proust, Sedgwick finds a kindred spirit. Both writers are notorious for their excruciatingly detailed and nuanced literary dissections of the hidden crevasses of human desire and esoteric references to spirituality, philosophy, and classics... Great authors live as long as their ideas remain relevant to the present world, and given the current political and cultural landscape, Sedgwick's philosophies make her as alive as she has ever been." Chase Dimock, Lambda Literary Review, April 15th 2012
Cuprins
Editor's Introduction xiii
The Weather in Proust 1
Cavafy, Proust, and the Queer Little Gods 42
Making Things, Practicing Emptiness 69
Melanie Klein and the Difference Affect Makes 123
Affect Theory and Theory of Mind 144
Anality: News from the Front 166
Making Gay Meanings 183
Thinking through Queer Theory 190
Reality and Realization 206
Figure Credits 217
Index 219
The Weather in Proust 1
Cavafy, Proust, and the Queer Little Gods 42
Making Things, Practicing Emptiness 69
Melanie Klein and the Difference Affect Makes 123
Affect Theory and Theory of Mind 144
Anality: News from the Front 166
Making Gay Meanings 183
Thinking through Queer Theory 190
Reality and Realization 206
Figure Credits 217
Index 219
Descriere
At the time of her death after a long battle with cancer, Eve Sedgwick had been working on a book on affect and Proust, and on the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein. This volume, edited by her friend and fellow-Series Q editor, Jonathan Goldberg, brings together a collection of her last work done since our publication of TOUCHING FEELING. In addition to her thoughts on affect, mind, Proust, and Klein, Sedgwick writes about Buddhism, her own artwork, and also looks back at her contributions to queer theory. Filled with luminous insight and Eves singular prose, this will be the last book in Series Q.