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Queer Social Philosophy

  • ISBN-13: 9780252029073
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • By Randall Halle
  • Price: AUD $71.99
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  • Local release date: 14/08/2004
  • Format: Hardback 224 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Sociology [JHB]
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In Queer Social Philosophy, Randall Halle analyzes key texts in the tradition of German critical theory from the perspective of contemporary queer theory, exposing gender and sexuality restrictions that undermine those texts' claims of universal truth. Addressing such figures as Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Adorno, and Habermas, Halle offers a unique contribution to contemporary debates about sexuality, civil society, and politics.
''Filled with challenging analyses and interpretive twists, this study explains the chief figures of German social philosophy in order to expose the ways in which the heteronormative has been preferenced and the queer (any individual/social aspect not in alignment with that norm, but especially the homosexual) has been excluded or marginalized. In recovering this past, the book creates a trajectory from the early modern (Kant) to the liberatory (Nietzsche). An erudite, highly original work.'' James W. Jones, author of ''We of the Third Sex'': Literary Representations of Homosexuality in Wilhelmine Germany
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