Queer Social Philosophy: CRITICAL READINGS FROM KANT TO ADORNO - Hardcover

Halle, Randall

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0252029070 ISBN 13: 9780252029073

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2004

Synopsis

An examination of how social philosophy in the writings of Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche define the parameters of desire from the perspective of queer theory.

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Review:

"Filled with challenging analyses and interpretive twists, this study explains the chief figures of German social philosophy in order to expose the ways in which the heteronormative has been preferenced and the queer (any individual/social aspect not in alignment with that norm, but especially the homosexual) has been excluded or marginalized. In recovering this past, the book creates a trajectory from the early modern (Kant) to the liberatory (Nietzsche). An erudite, highly original work."

"Halle's . . . deliberations on queer activism, queer emancipation, and queer science are passionate and inspiring, and they are bound to provide food for thought for some time to come."--"Seminar"

"Halle's . . . deliberations on queer activism, queer emancipation, and queer science are passionate and inspiring, and they are bound to provide food for thought for some time to come."--Seminar

Synopsis:

In "Queer Social Philosophy", Randall Halle analyzes key texts in the tradition of German critical theory from the perspective of contemporary queer theory, exposing gender and sexuality restrictions that undermine those texts' claims of universal truth. Addressing such figures as Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Adorno, and Habermas, Halle offers a unique contribution to contemporary debates about sexuality, civil society, and politics.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0252029070
• ISBN 13: 9780252029073
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 248