{"product_id":"corpus-ii-9780823240036","title":"Corpus II","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003eIn 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. \u003cbr\u003eIn 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A collection of dense and beautifully written and composed essays... Rich, powerful, and stunningly original.\" -- -Francois Raffoul Louisiana State University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslator'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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406130422103,"sku":"9780823240036","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780823240036.jpg?v=1730494633","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/corpus-ii-9780823240036","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}