Mari Ruti: 13 books
by Mari Ruti
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
We are conditioned to think that love heals wounds, makes us happy, and gives our lives meaning. When the opposite occurs and love causes fracturing, disenchantment, and existential turmoil, we suffer deeply, especially if we feel that love has failed us or that we have failed to experience what others...
Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings
The Emotional Costs of Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Mari Ruti combines theoretical reflection, cultural critique, feminist politics, and personal experience to analyze the prevalence of bad feelings in contemporary everyday life. Proceeding from a playful engagement with Freud’s idea of penis envy, Ruti’s autotheoretical commentary fans out to...
The Case for Falling in Love
Why We Can't Master the Madness of Love -- and Why That's the Best Part
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Praise for The Case for Falling in Love
"Why play 'hard to get' when you can just get what you want? Mari Ruti's lively research, from Plato to Freud to Gossip Girl to her own bedroom, finally puts an end to playing games, and provides a resource for lovers and the love-scorned alike....
The Call of Character
Living a Life Worth Living
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Should we feel inadequate when we fail to be healthy, balanced, and well-adjusted? Is it realistic or even desirable to strive for such an existential equilibrium? Condemning our current cultural obsession with cheerfulness and "positive thinking," Mari Ruti calls for a resurrection of character...
The Ethics of Opting Out
Queer Theory's Defiant Subjects
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
In The Ethics of Opting Out, Mari Ruti provides an accessible yet theoretically rigorous account of the ideological divisions that have animated queer theory during the last decade, paying particular attention to the field's rejection of dominant neoliberal narratives of success, cheerfulness, and...
Between Levinas and Lacan
Self, Other, Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Levinas and Lacan, two giants of contemporary theory, represent schools of thought that seem poles apart. In this major new work, Mari Ruti charts the ethical terrain between them.
At first glance, Levinansian and Lacanian approaches may seem more or less incompatible, and in many ways they...
Distillations
Theory, Ethics, Affect
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Distilling into concise and focused formulations many of the main ideas that Mari Ruti has sought to articulate throughout her writing career, this book reflects on the general state of contemporary theory as it relates to posthumanist ethics, political resistance, subjectivity, agency, desire, and...
Critical Theory Between Klein and Lacan
A Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2019
Critical Theory Between Klein and Lacan explores convergences and divergences in the psychoanalytic theories of Melanie Klein and Jacques Lacan, with a special focus on the implications of their work for critical theory, broadly construed. The book is co-authored in the form of a dialogue between...
The Age of Scientific Sexism
How Evolutionary Psychology Promotes Gender Profiling and Fans the Battle of the Sexes
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
We trust our sciences to operate on a plane of objectivity and fact in a world of subjectivity and cultural ideologies, but should we? In The Age of Scientific Sexism, philosopher Mari Ruti offers a sharp critique of the gender profiling tendencies of evolutionary psychology, untangling the insidious...
by Professor Mari Ruti
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
In Feminist Film Theory and Pretty Woman, Mari Ruti traces the development of feminist film theory from its foundational concepts such as the male gaze, female spectatorship, and the masquerade of femininity to 21st-century analyses of neoliberal capitalism, consumerism, postfeminism, and the revival...
De stem van je karakter
op zoek naar een leven met betekenis
Language: Dutch
Release Date: March 23, 2015
Intens, authentiek, liefdevol: zó willen we leven, zeggen we. Maar dat betekent ook: onrust, verdriet, verlangen, conflict. Die keerzijde proberen we zo veel mogelijk uit te bannen, maar zo verliezen we een belangrijk deel van wie we zijn. Imperfectie is de kern van ons bestaan. Juist angst en verlangen...
The Ethics of Remembering and the Consequences of Forgetting
Essays on Trauma, History, and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
The Ethics of Remembering and the Consequences of Forgetting: Essays on Trauma, History, and Memory brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines that draw on multiple perspectives to address issues that arise at the intersection of trauma, history, and memory. Contributors include critical...
Remains of the Social
Desiring the post-apartheid
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Remains of the Social is an interdisciplinary volume of essays that engages with what ‘the social’ might mean after apartheid; a condition referred to as ‘the post-apartheid social’. The volume grapples with apartheid as a global phenomenon that extends beyond the borders of South Africa between...