Autore: Leo Bersani

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 w …

Oxford University Press published eminent literary critic Leo Bersani’s first book, on Proust, in 1965, but the work has long been out of print. This new edition comes in response to a recent renewal …

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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 …

Two gifted and highly prolific intellectuals, Leo Bersani and Adam Phillips, here present a fascinating dialogue about the problems and possibilities of human intimacy. Their conversation takes as …

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, …

In each of the films discussed in this study – ”Le Mepris”, ”All About My Mother”, ”The Thin Red Line” – something extraordinary is proposed. Or if not proposed, then shown, visually, by …

In each of the films discussed in this study – ”Le Mepris”, ”All About My Mother”, ”The Thin Red Line” – something extraordinary is proposed. Or if not proposed, then shown, visually, by …

Caravaggio (1986), Derek Jarman’s portrait of the Italian Baroque artist, shows the painter at work with models drawn from Rome’s homeless and prostitutes, and his relationship with two very …

Caravaggio (1986), Derek Jarman’s portrait of the Italian Baroque artist, shows the painter at work with models drawn from Rome’s homeless and prostitutes, and his relationship with two very …

Acclaimed for his intricate, incisive, and often controversial explorations of art, literature, and society, Leo Bersani now addresses homosexuality in America.Hardly a day goes by without the media …