Description
Book SynopsisIn this outstanding new collection, philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy takes up his perennial themescommunity, embodiment, being-with, literature, politics, sense, and meaningas part of a deep and mature appreciation of the fact that we are richly, joyfully, and thoroughly sexual beings.
In a concise but extremely important essay, The There Is' of the Sexual Relation, Nancy responds to Lacan's dictum that there is no sexual relation and makes a radical argument for the central place of the sexual relation as our originary mode of being with one another. The Birth of Breasts is a beautiful reflection on human anatomy and the image and reality of the breast that draws on literature and poetry from Sappho to Beckett.
In Strange Foreign Bodies, Nancy revisits the philosophical territory of the relation between mind or spirit and body but reminds us that bodies are at once familiar to us and also irredeemably strange. The Body of Pleasure explores the body as the site of essentially f
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"A collection of dense and beautifully written and composed essays... Rich, powerful, and stunningly original." -- -Francois Raffoul Louisiana State University
Table of Contents
Translator's forward Chapter 1 The "There is" of Sexual Relation Chapter 2 The Birth of Breasts with Paean to Aphrodite Chapter 3 Strange Foreign Bodies Chapter 4 The Body of Pleasure Chapter 5 There is Sexual Relation-and Then
