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Libido: The French Existential Theories

By Alphonso Lingis

Book information

Publisher
Indiana University Press
Year
1985
ISBN
978-0-253-33415-2
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12851736 bytes)
Series
Studies in Phenomenology & Existential Philosophy
Pages
128\142
Time added
2018-12-09 19:45:19
psychoanalysis; libido; phenomenology; sexuality;

Description

Alphonso Lingis's engaging book studies the phenomenological and postphenomenological theories of sexuality of six contemporary French philosophers: Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Emmanuel Levinas, Jean-François Lyotard, Gilles Deleuze, and Félix Guattari. After centuries of philosophical silence on the matter, these writers, during the last fory years, have undertaken the first extended exploration of human sexuality in Western philosophical literature. Lingis presents the arguments developed by the six philosophers, critically assesses them, and offers his own explanation of how the libidinal body can be characterized, what the libidinal drive is, and what alterity commands in the erotic imperative. 1. Freedom and Slavery in Sexuality 1 2. Sense and Non-sense in Sexuality 40 3. Phenomenology of the Face and Carnal Intimacy 58 4. The Intensive Zone 74 5. The Carnal Machinery 89 6. Libido and Alterity 103

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