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Product Identifiers

PublisherFordham University Press

ISBN-100823294005

ISBN-139780823294008

eBay Product ID (ePID)18050082193

Product Key Features

Number of Pages160 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameSexistence

Publication Year2021

SubjectHuman Sexuality (See Also Psychology / Human Sexuality), Mind & Body, Sociology / General, Semiotics & Theory

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Philosophy, Social Science

AuthorJean-Luc Nancy

FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight9.6 Oz

Item Length8.3 in

Item Width5.3 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2021-904182

ReviewsWritten with clarity, wit, and depth, Sexistence takes up the challenges posed by sex to thinking, speaking, art, and the very definition of the human. In a series of pithy and startling formulations, Nancy upends common sense by arguing that because sex is sex to the extent that it is the expression of an excessive imperative that cannot be satisfied, sex is closer to art and language than it is to any finite empirical experience., Our preeminent living philosopher of being-with has at last turned his speculative attention to sex--'neither sexual difference, nor different sexualities, but sex itself.' If Foucault taught us to mistrust the idea of 'sex itself,' Nancy uncovers what we've missed in our reluctance to think the ontology of sexistence. A profound--and profoundly necessary--meditation on sex and being., "Written with clarity, wit, and depth, Sexistence takes up the challenges posed by sex to thinking, speaking, art, and the very definition of the human. In a series of pithy and startling formulations, Nancy upends common sense by arguing that because sex is sex to the extent that it is the expression of an excessive imperative that cannot be satisfied, sex is closer to art and language than it is to any finite empirical experience." ---Elissa Marder, Emory University, "Our preeminent living philosopher of being-with has at last turned his speculative attention to sex--'neither sexual difference, nor different sexualities, but sex itself.' If Foucault taught us to mistrust the idea of 'sex itself,' Nancy uncovers what we've missed in our reluctance to think the ontology of sexistence. A profound--and profoundly necessary--meditation on sex and being." ---Tim Dean, author of Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal194

Table Of ContentPreliminaries 1 A. Fatality? 1 B. Liberation? 5 C. Philosophy? 10 D. Drive? 17 E. Unsayable? 21 1. Lifting 26 2. Transmission 28 3. Appropriation 30 4. Fiction 32 5. Real 35 6. History 38 7. Technics and Transcendence 41 8. Excessive Nature 45 9. Desire 50 10. Continuous, Discontinuous 53 11. Devouring 57 12. Ass in Air 61 13. Penetration 66 14. Too Much, Too Little 70 15. Sex Singular Plural 74 16. not a word / I lacked 79 17. Joy 84 18. Troubles 89 19. Love Unto Death 97 20. Love Unto Life 101 21. Erotic Novel 108 Postlude 119 Superfluous Supplement 120 Notes 123

SynopsisSex, 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., Sexistence develops a new philosophical account of sexuality that troubles our conceptions of existence.

LC Classification NumberHQ21