Leo Bersani: 3 books

Book cover of Thoughts and Things
by Leo Bersani
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015

Leo Bersani’s career spans more than fifty years and extends across a wide spectrum of fields—including French studies, modernism, realist fiction, psychoanalytic criticism, film studies, and queer theory.  Throughout this new collection of essays that ranges, interestingly and brilliantly, from...
Book cover of Receptive Bodies
by Leo Bersani
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018

Leo Bersani, known for his provocative interrogations of psychoanalysis, sexuality, and the human body, centers his latest book on a surprisingly simple image: a newborn baby simultaneously crying out and drawing its first breath. These twin ideas—absorption and expulsion, the intake of physical...
Book cover of Foucault Against Himself
by François Caillat, Leo Bersani, Georges Didi-Huberman
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015

In his private life, as well as in his work and political attitudes, Michel Foucault often stood in contradiction to himself, especially when his expansive ideas collided with the institutions in which he worked. In Francois Caillat's provocative collection of essays and interviews based on his French...
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