...Kyoo Lee “What does queer feminism bring to sexual thinking and practice today that is surprising and transformative?” Lynne Huffer asks in Are the Lips a Grave? This essay on queer fem(inist) “lipthink” seeks to elucidate how and where, in Huffer’s ethics of eros, the post-Cartesian-Foucaultian...

... privileging of life itself, the essay argues for a conception of eros as strange, an erotic undoing that reimagines ethics as a Foucaultian limit-attitude to help us negotiate the problems of our time. © 2016 by Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2016 feminist...

... to Foucaultian genealogy, an Irigarayan ethics of eros, and a new kind of synthesis of narrative and performative. Also important to the work is an emphasis on ethics understood in terms of desubjectivation and of the Foucaultian event. Rethinking the meaning of the performative in this context, this essay asks...

... . Foucault Michel. L'usage des plaisirs . Paris : Gallimard , 1984 . Vol. 3 of Histoire de la sexualité. 3 vols. 1976-84 . Fusillo Massimo . Il romanzo greco: polifonia ed eros . Venice : Marsilio , 1989 . Hägg Tomas . The Novel in Antiquity . Oxford : Blackwell...

..., as the nothings on which they turn. How one encounters nothing and whether that encounter marks a relation; what such encounters may have to do with desubjectivation; and whether they could ever sustain the “ethics of eros” ( Are the Lips 25 ) that Huffer envisions: on such determinations nothing...

... of the Ugly Beauties] . Sofia: Anubis, 1994 . Irigaray, Luce. “Sorcerer Love: A Reading of Plato,Symposium, Diotima's Speech.” An Ethics of Sexual Difference . Trans. C. Burke and G. C. Gill. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1993 . 20 –33. Katsarska, Boryana. “Dusha. Eros. Obshtnost” [Soul. Eros. Community...

...: whether the drive contributes to the constitution of social bonds—in that case, Freud calls it “Eros”—or pushes for their dismantling, in which case it is called either the drive of aggression ( Aggressivitätstrieb ) or the death-drive ( Todestrieb ). The drive of aggression, the externalized version...

...” (121). (In the obsessional the Name-of-the-Father strips itself of any image in order to be the “at least one” who is certainly not castratable.) The fantasy here would also be that of a masculine Eros that would not be marked in any sense by the death drive. Insofar as he represents the principle...

...Herbert Marcuse Herbert Marcuse 1974 herbert marcuse was Professor of Philosophy at the University of California-San Diego from 1965 until his retirement in 1976. Prior to this, he was Professor of Political Science at Brandeis University. The author of Eros and Civilization (1955...

... to Baudelaire) is that when sex detaches itself from eros, all relations in and with the world become unfamiliar. 5 For Benjamin, the fact that desire is no longer linked to love in any normal, normative, or even recognizable fashion has enormous consequences for the way the poems are put together...

... of Civilization and Its Discontents thus aims to understand the workings of the drive through an elaboration of the tension between Eros and the death drive and to put into perspective both the injunction “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself” and the irreducibility of Homo homini lupus (“Man is wolf to man...

... of Adolescence in Greco-Roman Society . Amsterdam:J. C. Greben, 1991 . Konstan, David. “Enacting Eros.” The Sleep of Reason: Erotic Experience and Sexual Ethics in Ancient Greece and Rome . Martha Nussbaum and Juha Sihvola, eds. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2001 . 354 –73. Konstan, David, and Martha...

... theology at Lund University. Den kristna kärlekstanken genom tiderna: Eros och Agape ( The Christian Idea of Love through the Ages: Eros and Agape ) was first published in Swedish between 1930 and 1936. Quotations are from an edition of the second part of Nygren’s book, published as Agape and Eros...

.... Schur notes, the “oppressive conditions governing their everyday experience” (195). Horowitz and Liebowitz’s account of the New Left resonates with Herbert Marcuse’s account of Orpheus and Narcissus in Eros and Civilization and with a recently ascendant ethics of refusal, self-divestiture...

...-defined perverts, giving us, for example, “sadism” and “masochism” as desire types—named, not accidentally, after prominent and infamous literary figures, literature being, as Bersani shows us in his book, the site where libido moves the writer. By contrast, Freud began from the position that Eros...

... Kabakov's Installations and Immigrant Homes.” Critical Inquiry 24.2 ( 1998 ): 498 –524. Byers, Thomas B. “The Closing of the American Line: Expansive Poetry and Ideology.” Contemporary Literature 33.2 ( 1992 ): 396 –415. Carson, Anne. Eros: The Bittersweet . Normal: Dalkey, 1998 . Clines...

...). The use of the fi rst person singular in this very early lyric fragment positions a critical female self and establishes a perspective on war and its beauties and pleasures that is rejected for other pleasures, especially eros...

... and of me. For Bataille, eros is the advent of myself at the moment of my end in the encounter with another; it is the moment of my simultaneous beginning and end. I lose myself in the other (jouissance). Eros marks an impossible...

... (1920). There he had postulated that in addition to “the instinct to preserve living substance and to join it into ever larger units”—the province of the life drives, or Eros—“there must exist another, contrary drive seeking to dissolve those units and to bring them back to their primaeval, inorganic...

... , 2010 . ———. Technique et création au cinema: Le livre des images et des sons . Paris : ESEC , 2002 . Desser David . Eros Plus Massacre: An Introduction to the Japanese New Wave Cinema . Bloomington : Indiana UP , 1988 . Freud Sigmund . Beyond the Pleasure Principle. 1920...