Desire/Love

by Lauren Berlant

Book Overview

"There is nothing more alienating than having your pleasures disputed by someone with a theory," writes Lauren Berlant. Yet the ways in which we live sexuality and intimacy have been profoundly shaped by theories - especially psychoanalytic ones, which have helped to place sexuality and desire at the center of the modern story about what a person is and how her history should be read. At the same time, other modes of explanation have been offered...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0615686877
• ISBN13: 9780615686875
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Punctum Books
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.9" x 7.9"