Failing Desire by Karmen Mackendrick
suggests that the power of these desires and pleasures comes out of the very realization that this question can never quite be answered."Recommended for scholars and professionals interested in understanding how humans flourish despite societal efforts to define them" — CHOICE
"In Failing Desire, Karmen MacKendrick offers her readers something akin to a sequel to Counterpleasures. Pursuing the negative affects of failure, humiliation, and shame across authors that inform much of her work—Bataille, Blanchot, Augustine, Foucault, Kristeva, and Laure—MacKendrick effortlessly and breathlessly provides us with provocative new insights about the limitations of language, the pleasures of submission and obedience, and the wily unruliness of the flesh. For her devotees, the evocative prose and suggestive analysis will seem familiar, without being stale or repetitious; for novices, her style and acumen will seem assured and electrifying. MacKendrick breathes new life into authors, texts, and topics that have been at the forefront of critical engagements with embodiment, desire, and affect for the past several decades." — Kent L. Brintnall, author of Ecce Homo: The Male-Body-in-Pain as Redemptive Figure
Karmen MacKendrick is Professor of Philosophy at Le Moyne College. She is the author of several books, including Counterpleasures and Immemorial Silence, both also published by SUNY Press.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781438468914 |
| ISBN 10 | 1438468911 |
| Title | Failing Desire |
| Author | Karmen Mackendrick |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | State University of New York Press |
| Year published | 2018-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 220 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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