Randall Halle is an associate professor in the German section of the Modern Languages and Cultures Program at the University of Rochester.  He is coeditor of Light Motives: German Popular Film in Perspective and a special issue of Camera Obscura, and has published numerous essays on queer theory and German social philosophy.

"Halle's . . . deliberations on queer activism, queer emancipation, and queer science are passionate and inspiring, and they are bound to provide food for thought for some time to come."--Seminar

• Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: In Which the Terms of a Critique Are Discussed 1. Kant and the Desiring Individual 2. Hegel and Governmentality 3. Marx and the Limits of Emancipation 4. Reich, Fromm, Adorno: Latency Paradigms and Social Psychology 5. Nietzsche, Sociability, and Queer Knowing Conclusion: Prolegomena to a Queer Social Philosophy Works Cited Index Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Social sciences Philosophy, Homosexuality Philosophy, Social change