{"product_id":"reading-the-impossible-sexual-difference-critique-and-the-stamp-of-history-paperback-softback-9781531506797","title":"Reading the Impossible; Sexual Difference, Critique, and the Stamp of History (Paperback \/ softback) 9781531506797","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eReading the Impossible\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSexual Difference, Critique, and the Stamp of History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eElizabeth Weed (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781531506797\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 7 May 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e176 pages\u003cbr\u003e20.3 x 12.7 x 1.4 cm, 0.213 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eReading the impossible has never seemed less possible. A few decades ago, critical readings could view the collapse of foundationalism optimistically. With meaning no longer soldered onto being, there was hope for all those beings whose meaning had been forever ordained by Nature or the Divine. Critical reading thus became a way of exploring the devious workings of knowledge and power. But as non-foundational systems of meaning have proven to be so perfectly suited to the transactional logics of the market, reading for the impasses of meaning has come to be seen as quixotic, impractical, and dated. \u003cbr\u003e To concur with that view, Elizabeth Weed argues, is to embrace the fantasy told by the neoliberal order. To read the impossible is to disrupt that fantasy, with its return to stable categories of marketable identity, in order to contest the inexorable workings of misogyny and racism. This book seeks to disturb the positivity of identity in the hope of retrieving the impossibility of sexual difference, an impossibility that has its effects in the Real of misogyny.\u003cbr\u003e A return to the famous debate between Derrida and Lacan on the impossibility of sexual difference yields two different readings of the impossible. In reconsidering these questions, Weed shows how the practice of reading can powerfully stage the wiles of language and the unconscious. In returning to that earlier moment in the context of current debates on the role of reading and interpretation, Weed offers a fresh perspective on what is at stake for critical reading in the neoliberal university.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePrologue\u003c\/b\u003e: Why read the impossible now?   1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1. \u003c\/b\u003eStates of Impasse   30\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2.\u003c\/b\u003e Reading Sexual Difference   42\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3.\u003c\/b\u003e Reading the Stamp of History   89\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4.\u003c\/b\u003e Reading the Feminist Impossible   120\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eCoda \u003c\/b\u003e  125\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/i\u003e  131\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes \u003c\/i\u003e  133\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBibliography \u003c\/i\u003e  163\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex \u003c\/i\u003e  175\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52742764560664,"sku":"9781531506797","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/reading-the-impossible-sexual-difference-critique-and-the-stamp-of-history-paperback-softback-9781531506797","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}