Antihumanism in queer theory

Zanghellini, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8997-4941 (2020) Antihumanism in queer theory. Sexualities, 23 (4). pp. 530-548. ISSN 13634607 doi: 10.1177/1363460719842134

Abstract/Summary

Although queer theory is distinguished by its antihumanistic rhetoric, in much of queer theory antihumanism is more about performance than substance. This is not a bad thing, for, on those occasions when queer theory takes its antihumanism too seriously, it commits itself to incoherence. I illustrate this through an intertextual critique of Edelman's and Bersani's works. Edelman's celebration of the death drive is internally torn between an amoral standpoint and immoral urges. Unlike recent critical interventions, however, my point is less to impugn queer theory's preoccupation with antinormativity, than the performance of antinormativity that manifests as queer antihumanism.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/82760
Identification Number/DOI	10.1177/1363460719842134
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Law
Publisher	Sage
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