The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality

Elizabeth A. Povinelli

Published by Duke University Press 2006

The Empire of Love

Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality

Elizabeth A. Povinelli
Edited by: Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar , Jane Kramer , Benjamin Lee and Michael Warner

In the series Public planet books

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822388487

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Anthropologist Elizabeth A. Povinelli theorizes intimate relations as sites which bring into view the interplay between liberalism's contradictory ideals of freedom and constraint.

Author / Editor information

Elizabeth A. Povinelli is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Columbia University, where she is also Codirector of the Center for the Study of Law and Culture. She is the author of The Cunning of Recognition: Indigenous Alterities and the Making of Australian Multiculturalism, also published by Duke University Press. She is a former editor of the journal Public Culture.

Reviews

“Elizabeth A. Povinelli’s Empire of Love is a stunning achievement, tracking the intricate connections between forms of liberal governance and forms of love in the contemporary world. Povinelli renounces any temptation to take the highway of thought and instead takes the reader on a journey in which worlds known and less-known are slowly and patiently explored and shared. This is a book that touches the soul.”—Veena Das, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University

“What a brilliant book. Elizabeth A. Povinelli strives to make all the intellectual moves that need to be made today: connecting studies of sexuality to other phenomena that seem to be unrelated, thus opening out what gets to count as ‘sexuality’; thinking about sexuality in relation to liberal governance; and moving us beyond the binary opposition of freedom versus constraint. These arguments are refreshing as well as pressing for our times.”— Lisa Rofel, author of Desiring China

“Writing in this exquisite and courageous book of her experiences of community at opposite ends of the world, Elizabeth A. Povinelli meditates here on everything that both links and divides Australian indigenes from North American radical faeries—and, in so doing, provides us with an astonishing account of embodied intimacies caught between global discourses of individual freedom and social constraint.”—Andrew Parker, editor of The Philosopher and His Poor by Jacques Rancière

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Empires of Love: An Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 Rotten Worlds Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
2 Spiritual Freedom, Cultural Copyright Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
3 The Intimate Event and Genealogical Society Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
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Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 328

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Published: August 30, 2006
ISBN: 9780822388487