Receptive Bodies Bersani Professor Emeritus of French Leo University of California BerkeleyPaperback softback
Receptive Bodies Bersani Professor Emeritus of French Leo University of California BerkeleyPaperback softback Leo Bersani, known for his provocative interrogations of psychoanalysis, sexuality, and…
Specifikacia Receptive Bodies Bersani Professor Emeritus of French Leo University of California BerkeleyPaperback softback
Receptive Bodies Bersani Professor Emeritus of French Leo University of California BerkeleyPaperback softback
Leo Bersani, known for his provocative interrogations of psychoanalysis, sexuality, and the human body, centers his latest book on a surprisingly simple image: a newborn baby simultaneously crying out and drawing its first breath. These titular bodies range from fetuses in utero to fully eroticized adults, all the way to celestial giants floating in space. These twin ideas--absorption and expulsion, the intake of physical and emotional nourishment and the exhalation of breath--form the backbone of Receptive Bodies, a thoughtful new essay collection.
This sharp and wide-ranging book will excite scholars of Freud, Foucault, and Bersani illustrates his exploration of the body's capacities to receive and resist what is ostensibly alien using a typically eclectic set of sources, from literary icons like Marquis de Sade to cinematic provocateurs such as Bruno Dumont and Lars von Trier.