Failing Desire

by Karmen MacKendrick

Luckily for human diversity, we are perfectly capable of desiring impossible things. Failing Desire explores a particular set of these impossibilities, those connected to humiliation. These include the failure of autonomy in submission, of inward privacy in confession, of visual modesty in exhibition, and of dignity in playing various roles. Historically, those who find pleasure in these failures range from ancient Cynics through early Christian...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438468911
• ISBN13: 9781438468914
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 220 Pages