| Description |
ix, 291 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : desire's dissonance / Sarah LaChance Adams, Christopher M. Davidson, and Caroline R. Lundquist -- Finding and then losing your way : Eros and the other in Greek literature and philosophy / Louis A Ruprecht Jr. -- Love, and a romantic living room : remarks for an inquiry on ordinary love today / Chiara Piazzesi -- Love at the limit of phenomenology (à la Sartre and Marion) / Yong Dou (Michael) Kim -- Monogamism and polyamorism : a Weberian analysis / Erik Jansson Boström -- Friendless women and the myth of male nonage : why we need a better science of love and sex / Elena Clare Cuffari -- The revolutionary politics of love : Pussy Riot and punk rock as feminist practice / Fulden Ibrahimhakkioglu -- Paradox in practice : What we can learn about love from relationships between parents and young adult children / Christine Overall -- Orchid love / Phoebe Hart -- Failed medicalization and the cultural iconography of feminine sexuality / Rebecca Kukla -- Being through love : the collaborative construction of a sexual body / Amy E. Taylor -- The power of seduction / Alain Beauclair -- Some notes on faking / Hildur Kalman. |
| Summary |
"Our amorous and erotic experiences do not simply bring us pleasure; they shape our very identities, our ways of relating to ourselves, each other, and out shared world. New Philosophies of Sex and Love challenges some of our most prevalent assumptions relating to identity, the body, monogamy, libido, sexual identity, seduction, fidelity, orgasm, and more. In twelve original and philosophically thought-provoking essays, the authors reflect on the broader meaning of sex and love ; what their shifting historical meanings entail for us in the present ; how they are constrained by social conventions ; the ambiguous juxtaposition of agency and passivity that they reveal ; how they shape and are formed by political institutions ; the opportunities they present to resist the confines of gender and sexual orientation ; how cultural artifacts can become incorporated into the body ; and how sex and love both form and justify our ethical worldview."--Back cover. |
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Love.
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Sex.
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Love. (OCoLC)fst01002769
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Sex. (OCoLC)fst01114160
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| Added Author |
LaChance Adams, Sarah, editor.
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Davidson, Christopher M., 1980- editor.
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Lundquist, Caroline R., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: New philosophies of sex and love London ; Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield International, Ltd, [2016] 9781786602237 (DLC) 2016043879 |
| ISBN |
9781786602213 (cloth) (alkaline paper) |
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1786602210 (cloth) (alkaline paper) |
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9781786602220 (paperback) (alkaline paper) |
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1786602229 (paperback) (alkaline paper) |
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