{"product_id":"touching-feeling-eve-kosofsky-sedgwick-9780822330158","title":"Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity","description":"A pioneer in queer theory and literary studies, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick brings together for the first time in \u003ci\u003eTouching Feeling\u003c\/i\u003e her most powerful explorations of emotion and expression. In essays that show how her groundbreaking work in queer theory has developed into a deep interest in affect, Sedgwick offers what she calls \"tools and techniques for nondualistic thought,\" in the process touching and transforming such theoretical discourses as psychoanalysis, speech-act theory, Western Buddhism, and the Foucauldian \"hermeneutics of suspicion.\"\u003cp\u003eIn prose sometimes somber, often high-spirited, and always accessible and moving, \u003ci\u003eTouching Feeling\u003c\/i\u003e interrogates-through virtuoso readings of works by Henry James, J. L. Austin, Judith Butler, the psychologist Silvan Tomkins and others-emotion in many forms. What links the work of teaching to the experience of illness? How can shame become an engine for queer politics, performance, and pleasure? Is sexuality more like an affect or a drive? Is paranoia the only realistic epistemology for modern intellectuals? Ultimately, Sedgwick's unfashionable commitment to the truth of happiness propels a book as open-hearted as it is intellectually daring.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822330156\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822330158\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/17\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.99h x 6.13w x 0.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWomen's Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2004 pg. 12\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2003","brand":"Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44049266213119,"sku":"9780822330158","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1e58da90-c227-4e18-8458-42378a27195d.jpg?v=1685000591","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/touching-feeling-eve-kosofsky-sedgwick-9780822330158","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}