{"product_id":"bad-education","title":"Bad Education","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eBad Education\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eLee Edelman\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781478018629\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eDuke University Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2023\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e368\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eLong awaited after \u003ci\u003eNo Future\u003c\/i\u003e, and making queer theory controversial again, Lee Edelman's \u003ci\u003eBad Education\u003c\/i\u003e proposes a queerness without positive identity-a queerness understood as a figural name for the void, itself unnamable, around which the social order takes shape. Like Blackness, woman, incest, and sex, queerness, as Edelman explains it, designates the antagonism, the structuring negativity, preventing that order from achieving coherence. But when certain types of persons get read as literalizing queerness, the negation of their negativity can seem to resolve the social antagonism and totalize community. By translating the nothing of queerness into the something of \"the queer,\" the order of meaning defends against the senselessness that undoes it, thus mirroring, Edelman argues, education's response to queerness: its sublimation of irony into the meaningfulness of a world. Putting queerness in relation to Lacan's \"ab-sens\" and in dialogue with feminist and Afropessimist thought, Edelman reads works by Shakespeare, Jacobs, Almodóvar, Lemmons, and Haneke, among others, to show why queer theory's engagement with queerness necessarily results in a bad education that is destined to teach us nothing.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Bad Education | Lee Edelman | Paperback | 9781478018629 | New | Queer Studies 1736255","offer_id":48168415592600,"sku":"1736255","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71jgE42bLlL.jpg?v=1771968267","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/bad-education","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}