Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. PART 1. The Sexual Subject
5. 1. Is the Rectum a Grave? 3
6. 2. Is There a Gay Art? 31
7. 3. Gay Betrayals 36
8. 4. Sociability and Cruising 45
9. 5. Aggression, Gay Shame, and Almodóvar’s Art 63
10. PART 2. Toward an Aesthetic Subject
11. 6. Against Monogamy 85
12. 7. Sociality and Sexuality 102
13. 8. Can Sex Make Us Happy? 120
14. 9. Fr-oucault and the End of Sex 133
15. 10. Psychoanalysis and the Aesthetic Subject 139
16. 11. The Will to Know 154
17. PART 3. Two Interviews
18. 12. A Conversation with Leo Bersani 171
19. 13. Beyond Redemption: An Interview with Leo Bersani 187
20. Index 203