Re: [Marxism] University of Minnesota press announcement

[Gulf Mann <gulfmann@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ahhh Minnesota--always on the cutting edge. ~H/

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The Reification of Desire
> Toward a Queer Marxism
> Kevin Floyd
> University of Minnesota Press | 304 pages | 2009
> ISBN 978-0-8166-4396-7 | paper | $25.00
> ISBN 978-0-8166-4395-0 | cloth | $75.00
>
> A new theoretical approach to the relationship between Marxism and queer
> studies
> The Reification of Desire takes two critical perspectives rarely
> analyzed together—formative arguments for Marxism and those that have
> been the basis for queer theory—and productively scrutinizes these ideas
> both with and against each other to put forth a new theoretical
> connection between Marxism and queer studies.
>
>     "The Reification of Desire makes surprising and important
> connections between Marxism and queer theory, and Kevin Floyd’s analyses
> are to be commended for their ability to move skillfully from abstract
> theory to the most detailed histories of socio-economic dynamics and
> masculine culture." —Eric Clarke, University of Pittsburgh
>
>
> More information + the table of contents:
> http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/F/floyd_reification.html
>
>
>
> ALSO OF INTEREST:
>
>
>
> The Frankfurt School in Exile
> Thomas Wheatland
> University of Minnesota Press | 440 pages | 2009
> ISBN 978-0-8166-5367-6 | cloth/jacket | $39.95
>
> Persuasive and pioneering research on the influence of German
> intellectuals on postwar American thought
> Although much has been written about the Frankfurt School, this is the
> first book to closely examine the relationship between its members and
> their American contemporaries. The Frankfurt School in Exile uncovers an
> important but neglected dimension of the history of the Frankfurt School
> and adds immeasurably to our understanding of the contributions made by
> its émigré intellectuals to postwar intellectual life.
>
>     "With exemplary clarity and illuminating research, Thomas
> Wheatland’s book fills in some missing chapters in this institutional as
> well as intellectual history, including the Frankfurt School’s crucial
> sojourn at Columbia University, its relationships with the wider world
> of the New York intellectuals, and its impact on the New Left. He also
> stresses the influence of these American years on the Frankfurt critics
> themselves. This is a momentous, valuable, and highly informative book."
> —Morris Dickstein, Graduate Center, City University of New York
>
>
> More information + the table of contents:
> http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/W/wheatland_frankfurt.html
>
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