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Cruel Optimism
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Author(s):
Lauren Berlant
Publication date:
2011
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Duke University Press
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978-0-8223-5097-2
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978-0-8223-9471-6
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2011
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10.1215/9780822394716
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Book chapters
pp. 1
Introduction
pp. 23
Cruel Optimism
pp. 51
Intuitionists
pp. 95
Slow Death (Obesity, Sovereignty, Lateral Agency)
pp. 121
Two Girls, Fat and Thin
pp. 161
Nearly Utopian, Nearly Normal
pp. 191
After the Good Life, an Impasse
pp. 223
On the Desire for the Political
pp. 269
Notes
pp. 303
Bibliography
pp. 327
Index
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