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Why then do we foreclose interest's possibility, degrade our (and others') capacities to experience interest, and destroy interest's objects? Why do we decline what interest proffers - which includes creative and subjective being, thinking, and relating - in favor of more primitive modes of survival, thoughtlessness, and nonbeing? Why do relationships - with ourselves, with others, with objects - toward which genuine interest draws us seem sometimes, if not often, unbearable?
These questions are difficult. Their answers, even more so. MISINTEREST: Essays, Pensées, and Dreams attempts to approach them in an honest way, without making them fascinating, mysterious, boring, obscurantist, or fascinatingly mysteriously boringly obscurantist. Outwardly, MISINTEREST is concerned with dreams and forgetting and Eros and soaring dogs and groups and suicidal suburban teenagers and sex and jury duty and Nazis and fathers and hatred and holy parrots and fundamentalists and plagues and other things that may or may not be interesting. Ultimately, however, it seeks, like Jules Renard, "en restant exact" (in remaining true/real), to shed light on the establishment of misinterest, missingness, and mystery where and when they need not be, and, thus, on the psychic, familial, and political forces that compel us not to be when and where we ought.
M.H. BOWKER is the author of ten books - including "Ostranenie: On Shame and Knowing" and "Escargotesque, or, What is Experience?" (both published with punctum) - and numerous papers in the areas of psychoanalytic theory, social and political philosophy, literary criticism, and critical pedagogy. He is a professor at a small college in upstate New York. Educated at Columbia University and the University of Maryland, College Park, he edits the Psychoanalytic Political Theory book series at Routledge and is the (North American) Editor of the Journal of Psycho-Social Studies. He is a recent Fulbright grant recipient and has taught approximately one hundred courses in a wide array of disciplines, including Political Science, Philosophy, Psychology, English, and more.
Author: M. H. Bowker
ISBN-10: 1950192296
ISBN-13: 9781950192298
Publisher: Punctum Books
Language: English
Published: 06/22/2019
Pages: 170
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.38lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.36d
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