The sexual subject -- Is the rectum a grave? -- Is there a gay art? -- Gay betrayals -- Sociability and cruising -- Aggression, shame, and Almodóvar's art -- Toward an aesthetic subject -- Against monogamy -- Sociality and sexuality -- Can sex make us happy? -- Fr-oucault and the end of sex -- Psychoanalysis and the aesthetic subject -- The will to know -- Two interviews -- A conversation with Leo Bersani / with Tim Dean, Hal Foster, and Kaja Silverman -- Beyond redemption: an interview with Leo Bersani / with Nicholas Royle.
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"Over the course of these essays, Bersani grapples with thinkers ranging from Plato to Descartes to Georg Simmel. Foucault and Freud recur as key figures, and although Foucault rejected psychoanalysis, Bersani contends that by considering his ideas alongside Freud's, one gains a clearer understanding of human identity and how we relate to one another. For Bersani, art represents a crucial guide for conceiving new ways of connecting to the world, and so, in many of these essays, he stresses the importance of aesthetics, analyzing works by Genet, Caravaggio, Proust, Almodóvar, and Godard."--Provided by publisher.