Sexistence
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Sexistence

  1. 160 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. SEXISTENCE
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Preliminaries
  8. 1. Lifting
  9. 2. Transmission
  10. 3. Appropriation
  11. 4. Fiction
  12. 5. Real
  13. 6. History
  14. 7. Technics and Transcendence
  15. 8. Excessive Nature
  16. 9. Desire
  17. 10. Continuous, Discontinuous
  18. 11. Devouring
  19. 12. Ass in Air
  20. 13. Penetration
  21. 14. Too Much, Too Little
  22. 15. Sex Singular Plural
  23. 16. not a word / I lacked
  24. 17. Joy
  25. 18. Troubles
  26. 19. Love Unto Death
  27. 20. Love Unto Life
  28. 21. Erotic Novel
  29. Postlude
  30. Superfl uous Supplement
  31. Notes