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Corpus II: Writings on Sexuality
Jean-Luc Nancy
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Description for Corpus II: Writings on Sexuality
Paperback. Corpus II is a collection of recent essays by Jean-Luc Nancy dealing with embodiment, sexuality, pleasure and the crossing of borders and boundaries. It is both a celebration of our sexual existence and an unflinching philosophical reflection on all our ways of being together. Translator(s): O'Byrne, Anne E. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy (FUP). Num Pages: 106 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 226 x 10. Weight in Grams: 214.
In this outstanding new collection, philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy takes up his perennial themes—community, embodiment, being-with, literature, politics, sense, and meaning—as part of a deep and mature appreciation of the fact that we are richly, joyfully, and thoroughly sexual beings.
In a concise but extremely important essay, “The ‘There Is’ of the Sexual Relation,” Nancy responds to Lacan’s dictum that “there is no sexual relation” and makes a radical argument for the central place of the sexual relation as our originary mode of being with one another. “The Birth of Breasts” is a beautiful reflection on human anatomy and the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
106
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823240036
SKU
V9780823240036
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About Jean-Luc Nancy
Jean-Luc Nancy (1940–2021) was Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Université de Strasbourg and one of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century’s foremost thinkers of politics, art, and the body. His wide-ranging thought runs through many books, including Being Singular Plural, The Ground of the Image, Corpus, The Disavowed Community, and Sexistence. His book The Intruder was adapted into ... Read more
Reviews for Corpus II: Writings on Sexuality
"A collection of dense and beautifully written and composed essays... Rich, powerful, and stunningly original."
-Francois Raffoul Louisiana State University
-Francois Raffoul Louisiana State University