Antihumanism in queer theory

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ID3000428
AutoresAleardo Zanghellini (0000-0001-8997-4941, University of Reading School of Law, UK, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume23
Fascículo4
Páginas530-548
Data de publicação2020-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSexualities (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1363-4607 • E-ISSN: 1461-7382
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1363460719842134
OpenAlexW2944613615
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas38

Although queer theory is distinguished by its antihumanistic rhetoric, in much of queer theory antihumanism is more about performance than substance. This is not a bad thing, for, on those occasions when queer theory takes its antihumanism too seriously, it commits itself to incoherence. I illustrate this through an intertextual critique of Edelman's and Bersani's works. Edelman's celebration of the death drive is internally torn between an amoral standpoint and immoral urges. Unlike recent critical interventions, however, my point is less to impugn queer theory's preoccupation with antinormativity, than the performance of antinormativity that manifests as queer antihumanism

Aesthetics · Art · Death drive · Psychoanalysis · Queer · Queer theory · Rhetoric · Sociology · Theology · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Gender Studies · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology