New philosophies of sex and love : thinking through desire /: thinking through desire. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Sarah LaChance Adams, Christopher M. Davidson, and Caroline R. Lundquist.
• Editors: LaChance Adams, Sarah; Davidson, Christopher M, 1980-; Lundquist, Caroline R
• Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Part I Desire's Dissonance; Chapter One Introduction: Desire's Dissonance ; Part II Defining Desire; Chapter Two Finding and Then Losing Your Way: Eros and the Other in Greek Literature and Philosophy ; The Myth; The Story; Angels and Demons; Sex and Sexuality; Tragedy and Comedy; Mortals and Immortals; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter Three Love, and a Romantic Living Room: Remarks for an Inquiry on Ordinary Love Today ; Understanding an Understanding of Love What Is a Living Room? Pros and Cons of a Minimal DefinitionThe Importance of Being Ordinary; Contemporary Patterns: Some Introductory Remarks; Concluding Remarks; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter Four Love at the Limit of Phenomenology (à la Sartre and Marion); I. The Transcendental Question: How Does Love Appear?; II. Decentering Reflection: From Being to Event; III. Crossing, or: Not One but Two; IV. The Appearance of a World; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter Five Monogamism and Polyamorism: A Weberian Analysis ; Ideal Types; Ideal Types of Monogamism and Polyamorism; Conclusion; Notes Feminist Love and Serious ActivismThe Politics of the Erotic and Pussy Riot's Project of Bringing Joy; Anger and Love; Conclusion; Postscript; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter Eight Paradox in Practice: What We Can Learn about Love from Relationships between Parents and Young Adult Children ; Ontology; Epistemology; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Part IV Embodiment and Culture; Chapter Nine Orchid Love; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter Ten Failed Medicalization and the Cultural Iconography of Feminine Sexuality; What is Medicalization and When Is It Appropriate?; Big Pharma and the Hard Phallus Female Sexual Dysfunction: The State of the ScienceThe Failure of the Attempt to Medicalize Female Sexuality; Imagining Female Sexuality and the Myth of Feminine Mystery; Female Sexuality in the Scientific Imagination; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter Eleven Being Through Love: The Collaborative Construction of a Sexual Body ; Introduction; Merleau-Ponty and the Sexual Body; Schneider; Normative Sexuality; Normative Bodies; Alternative Sexualities; The Event of Sexuality; Sex as Imaginative Play; "Passivity" in the Creation of Sexuality; Passing, Acceptance, and Love; IV. Conclusion
• Publisher Details: London : Rowman & Littlefield International, Ltd
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (ix, 291 pages)
• Subjects: 128/.46; Social Science: Gender Studies; Love; Sex; PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Humanism; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781786602237; 1786602237
• Related ISBNs: 9781786602213
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 09, 2016).
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