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Sexistence
Contributor(s): Nancy, Jean-Luc (Author), Miller, Steven (Translator)

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 ISBN: 0823294005     ISBN-13: 9780823294008
Publisher: Fordham University Press
OUR PRICE: $99.75  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: May 2021
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Human Sexuality (see Also Psychology - Human Sexuality)
- Philosophy | Mind & Body
- Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory
Dewey: 194
LCCN: 2021904182
Physical Information: 0.38" H x 5" W x 8" L (0.55 lbs) 160 pages
 
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Sex, more than just a part of our experience, troubles our conceptions of existence.

Drawing on a fascinating array of sources, ancient and modern, philosophical and literary, Jean-Luc Nancy explores and upholds the form-giving thrust of the drive. Nancy reminds us that we are more comfortable with the drama of prohibitions, ideals, repression, transgression, and destruction, which often hamper thinking about sex and gender, than with the affirmation of an originary trouble at the limits of language that divides being and opens the world.

Sexistence develops a new philosophical account of sexuality that resonates with contemporary research on gender and biopolitics. Without attempting to be comprehensive, the book ranges from the ancient world through psychoanalysis to discover the turbulence of the drive at the heart of existence.
 
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