The Reification of Desire: Toward a Queer Marxism
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| Rating | : | 4.40 (671 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0816643962 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the AuthorKevin Floyd is associate professor of English at Kent State University.
Toward Queer Marxism In his book, Global Sex, Dennis Altman complains that his students of queer theory fail to appreciate the historical circumstances which the theories that they study were intended to explain. Here, Floyd cannot be said to be guilty of this sin. Capitalism creates abstractions which take on a seeming reality all t
Kevin Floyd is associate professor of English at Kent State University.
Floyd theorizes a dissociation of sexuality from gender at the beginning of the twentieth century in terms of reification to claim that this dissociation is one aspect of a larger dynamic of social reification enforced by capitalism. Kevin Floyd brings queer critique to bear on the Marxian categories of reification and totality and considers the dialectic that frames the work of Georg Lukács, Herbert Marcuse, and Fredric Jameson. Reading the work of these theorists together with influential queer work by such figures as Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, and alongside reconsiderations of such texts as The Sun Also Rises and Midnight Cowboy, Floyd reformulates these two central categories that have been inseparable from a key strand of Marxist thought and have marked both its explanatory power and its limitations. The Reification of Desire takes two critical perspectives rarely analyzed together—formative arguments for Marxism and those that have been the basis for queer theory&md