{"product_id":"touching-feeling-affect-pedagogy-performativity-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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eEve Kosofsky Sedgwick is Distinguished Professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of numerous books including \u003ci\u003eA Dialogue on Love \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eEpistemology of the Closet. \u003c\/i\u003eHer books \u003ci\u003eTendencies; Fat Art, Thin Art, \u003c\/i\u003ea book of poetry; \u003ci\u003eNovel Gazing: Queer Readings in Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e; and S\u003ci\u003ehame and Its Sisters: A Silvan Tomkins Reader\u003c\/i\u003e (coedited with Adam Frank) are published by Duke University Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50719126749458,"sku":"9780822330158","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e36783a3-f5fe-4cd5-a462-a15375ae4b86.jpg?v=1734659792","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/touching-feeling-affect-pedagogy-performativity-9780822330158","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}