{"product_id":"untying-things-together-by-professor-eric-l-santner-9780226816470","title":"Untying Things Together","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eUntying Things Together\u003c\/i\u003e helps to clarify the stakes of the last fifty years of literary and cultural theory by proposing the idea of a sexuality of theory.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1905, Freud published his \u003ci\u003eThree Essays on the Theory of Sexuality\u003c\/i\u003e, the book that established the core psychoanalytic thesis that sexuality is central to formations of the unconscious. With this book, Eric L. Santner inverts Freud’s title to take up the \u003ci\u003esexuality of theory\u003c\/i\u003e—or, more exactly, the modes of enjoyment to be found in the kinds of critical thinking that, since the 1960s, have laid claim to that ancient word, “theory.” Santner unfolds his argument by tracking his own relationship with this tradition and the ways his intellectual and spiritual development has been informed by it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUntying Things Together\u003c\/i\u003e is both an intellectual history of major theoretical paradigms and a call for their reexamination and renewal. Revisiting many of the topics he has addressed in previous work, Santner proposes a new way of conceptualizing the \u003ci\u003eeros\u003c\/i\u003e of thinking, attuned to how our minds and bodies individually and collectively incorporate or “encyst” on a void at the heart of things. Rather than proposing a “return to theory,” Santner’s book simply employs theory as a way of further “(un)tying together” the resources of philosophy, art and literature, theology, psychoanalysis, political thought, and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000835293420,"sku":"9780226816470","price":47.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/81bae75f8d034af957c401013176b15b.jpg?v=1763323064","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/untying-things-together-by-professor-eric-l-santner-9780226816470","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}