Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity

摘要: A pioneer in queer theory and literary studies, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick brings together for the first time Touching Feeling her most powerful explorations of emotion expression. In essays that show how groundbreaking work has developed into a deep interest affect, offers what she calls "tools techniques nondualistic thought," process touching transforming such theoretical discourses as psychoanalysis, speech-act theory, Western Buddhism, Foucauldian "hermeneutics suspicion." In prose sometimes somber, often high-spirited, always accessible moving, interrogates—through virtuoso readings works by Henry James, J. L. Austin, Judith Butler, psychologist Silvan Tomkins others—emotion many forms. What links teaching to experience illness? How can shame become an engine politics, performance, pleasure? Is sexuality more like affect or drive? paranoia only realistic epistemology modern intellectuals? Ultimately, Sedgwick's unfashionable commitment truth happiness propels book open-hearted it is intellectually daring.