| Thoughts and Things Contributor(s): Bersani, Leo (Author) |
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ISBN: 022620605X ISBN-13: 9780226206059 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $31.68 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism - Philosophy | Aesthetics - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy |
| Dewey: 110 |
| LCCN: 2014019942 |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 5.74" W x 8.68" (0.65 lbs) 128 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Leo Bersani's career spans more than fifty years and extends across a wide spectrum of fields--including French studies, modernism, realist fiction, psychoanalytic criticism, film studies, and queer theory. Throughout this new collection of essays that ranges, interestingly and brilliantly, from movies by Claire Denis and Jean-Luc Godard to fiction by Proust and Pierre Bergounioux, Bersani considers various kinds of connectedness. Thoughts and Things posits what would appear to be an irreducible gap between our thoughts (the human subject) and things (the world). Bersani departs from his psychoanalytic convictions to speculate on the oneness of being--of our intrinsic connectedness to the other that is at once external and internal to us. He addresses the problem of formulating ways to consider the undivided mind, drawing on various sources, from Descartes to cosmology, Freud, and Genet and succeeds brilliantly in diagramming new forms as well as radical failures of connectedness. Ambitious, original, and eloquent, Thoughts and Things will be of interest to scholars in philosophy, film, literature, and beyond. |
Contributor Bio(s): Bersani, Leo: - Leo Bersani is professor emeritus of French at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of numerous books, most recently Thoughts and Things. |