Deleuze and Sex
Title | Deleuze and Sex PDF eBook |
Author | Frida Beckman |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2011-07-07 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0748688994 |
This collection of essays offers a fresh and new philosophical approach to the study of sex and sexuality as practicein the philosophy of Deleuze.
Deleuze and Queer Theory
Title | Deleuze and Queer Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Chrysanthi Nigianni |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2009-01-30 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0748634061 |
This exciting collection of work introduces a major shift in debates on sexuality: a shift away from discourse, identity and signification, to a radical new conception of bodily materialism. Moving away from the established path known as queer theory, itsuggests an alternative to Butler's matter/representation binary. It thus dares to askhow to think sexuality and sex outside the discursive and linguistic context that hascome to dominate contemporary research in social sciences and humanities. Deleuze and Queer Theory is a provocative and often militant collection that explores a diverse range of themes including: the revisiting of the term 'queer'; a rethinking of the sex-gender distinction as being implied in Queer Theory; an exploration of queer temporalities; the non/re-reading of the homosexual body/desire and the becoming-queer of the Deleuze/Guattari philosophy. It will be essential reading for anyone interested not just in Deleuze's and Guattari's philosophy, but also in the fields of sexuality, gender and feminist theory.
Sleights of Reason
Title | Sleights of Reason PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Beth Mader |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 163 |
Release | 2012-01-02 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1438434332 |
A brilliant and original reimagining of sexuality, this book examines how concepts lend themselves to power/knowledge formations, and offers a robust synthesis of insights from Foucault and Deleuze to extend those into a proposal for a conceptual next step for imagining the structures of sexuality as eros. Many contemporary French philosophers make incidental use of the notion of a ruse. Its names are legion: 'duplicity,' 'concealment,' 'forgetting,' and 'subterfuge,' among others. This book employs Gilles Deleuze's philosophy of the concept to describe three specifically conceptual ruses, or sleights, that make up part of the conceptual support for the concept of sex. These are the sleights associated with the concepts of norm, bisexuality and development. Mary Beth Mader argues that concepts can trick us, and shows how they can effect conceptual sleights, or what she calls sleights of reason.
Sex and the Failed Absolute
Title | Sex and the Failed Absolute PDF eBook |
Author | Slavoj Žižek |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Academic |
Pages | 497 |
Release | 2019-09-19 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1350043788 |
In the most rigorous articulation of his philosophical system to date, Slavoj Žižek provides nothing short of a new definition of dialectical materialism. In forging this new materialism, Žižek critiques and challenges not only the work of Alain Badiou, Robert Brandom, Joan Copjec, Quentin Meillassoux, and Julia Kristeva (to name but a few), but everything from popular science and quantum mechanics to sexual difference and analytic philosophy. Alongside striking images of the Möbius strip, the cross-cap, and the Klein bottle, Žižek brings alive the Hegelian triad of being-essence-notion. Radical new readings of Hegel, and Kant, sit side by side with characteristically lively commentaries on film, politics, and culture. Here is Žižek at his interrogative best.
Deleuze and Law
Title | Deleuze and Law PDF eBook |
Author | Laurent de Sutter |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2012-06-20 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0748664548 |
A collective experiment in the conjunction of law and philosophy. This collection of 11 essays offers insights into Gilles Deleuze's philosophy of law, investigating new forms of politics, economics and society. It explores the features of Deleuze's universal jurisprudence, the mutual becoming of law and philosophy and reveals law as the most progressive and experimental force of the Modern Age.
What IS Sex?
Title | What IS Sex? PDF eBook |
Author | Alenka Zupancic |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 163 |
Release | 2017-09-08 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0262534134 |
Why sexuality is at the point of a “short circuit” between ontology and epistemology. Consider sublimation—conventionally understood as a substitute satisfaction for missing sexual satisfaction. But what if, as Lacan claims, we can get exactly the same satisfaction that we get from sex from talking (or writing, painting, praying, or other activities)? The point is not to explain the satisfaction from talking by pointing to its sexual origin, but that the satisfaction from talking is itself sexual. The satisfaction from talking contains a key to sexual satisfaction (and not the other way around)—even a key to sexuality itself and its inherent contradictions. The Lacanian perspective would make the answer to the simple-seeming question, “What is sex?” rather more complex. In this volume in the Short Circuits series, Alenka Zupančič approaches the question from just this perspective, considering sexuality a properly philosophical problem for psychoanalysis; and by psychoanalysis, she means that of Freud and Lacan, not that of the kind of clinician practitioners called by Lacan “orthopedists of the unconscious.” Zupančič argues that sexuality is at the point of a “short circuit” between ontology and epistemology. Sexuality and knowledge are structured around a fundamental negativity, which unites them at the point of the unconscious. The unconscious (as linked to sexuality) is the concept of an inherent link between being and knowledge in their very negativity.
Sex After Life
Title | Sex After Life PDF eBook |
Author | Claire Colebrook |
Publisher | |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 2015-05-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9781785420122 |
Sex After Life aims to consider the various ways in which the concept of life has provided normative and moralizing ballast for queer, feminist and critical theories. Arguing against a notion of the queer as counter-normative, Sex After Life appeals to the concept of life as a philosophical problem. Life is neither a material ground nor a generative principle, but can nevertheless offer itself for new forms of problem formation that exceed the all too human logics of survival.