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Mikko Tuhkanen is Professor of English at Texas A&M University, USA. He is the author of The Essentialist Villain: On Leo Bersani (2018) and The American Optic: Psychoanalysis, Critical Race Theory, and Richard Wright (2009). He is also the editor of Leo Bersani: Queer Theory and Beyond (2014), as well as the co-editor, with E. L. McCallum, of Queer Times, Queer Becomings (2011) and The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature (2014).
Leo Bersani's greatness is tied to a resolutely interlocutory ethics-to his generous thinking-with (with Sade, Proust, Freud, Laplanche, Deleuze, Foucault, Beckett, Dumont; with art by way of doing theory and with theory by way of making a kind of art). Mikko Tuhkanen honors this half-century-long project by taking Bersani as his interlocutor to explore the ambivalences, tensions, irresolvable questions, but also rhythms, fascinations, and, yes, seductions of twentieth-century continental theory. Tuhkanen is a worthy Beatrice, guiding us through the paradisiacal riches of Bersani's beautiful, rigorous, and gloriously destabilizing readings. * Eugenie Brinkema, author of The Forms of the Affects * This illuminating overview is both a lucid introduction to Leo Bersani's thought and a bold reinterpretation of it. Highlighting the patterns that have shaped Bersani's rich and complex work across the span of his long career, Tuhkanen provides a new framework for understanding his influential ideas about sex and sexuality in relation to his equally compelling insights about aesthetics, ontology, and ethics. * Brian Glavey, Associate Professor, English Language and Literature, University of South Carolina, USA *
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