Corpus II: Writings on Sexuality by Jean-Luc Nancy (English) Paperback Book

Description: Corpus II by Jean-Luc Nancy, Anne O'Byrne Corpus II is a collection of recent essays by Jean-Luc Nancy dealing with embodiment, sexuality, pleasure and the crossing of borders and boundaries. It is both a celebration of our sexual existence and an unflinching philosophical reflection on all our ways of being together. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description In this outstanding new collection, philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy takes up his perennial themes-community, embodiment, being-with, literature, politics, sense, and meaning-as 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 Lacans 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 finite pleasure, "finite because it reaches the end, the limit where the body tends to lose all form, becomes matter, an impenetrable mass. But this end also forms the touch of the outside and with it the joy of the world."Finally, "The Sexual Relation-and Then" builds on the insight into the central place of the sexual relation by considering specifically the generative possibilities of sex and the fact that we all came to be as the product of sexual relations.Nancys Corpus, published in English in 2008, was the philosophers most sustained consideration of embodiment to date. Now, in Corpus II, he carries that work in new directions which constantly remind us that human bodies are sexed and sexual bodies. Notes Corpus II is a collection of recent essays by Jean-Luc Nancy dealing with embodiment, sexuality, pleasure and the crossing of borders and boundaries. It is both a celebration of our sexual existence and an unflinching philosophical reflection on all our ways of being together. Author Biography Jean-Luc Nancy (1940–2021) was Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Université de Strasbourg and one of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centurys foremost thinkers of politics, art, and the body. His wide-ranging thought runs through many books, including Being Singular Plural, The Ground of the Image, Corpus, The Disavowed Community, and Sexistence. His book The Intruder was adapted into an acclaimed film by Claire Denis. Anne OByrne is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University. She is the author of Natality and Finitude (Indiana, 2010), coeditor of Logics of Genocide (Routledge, 2020), and translator or cotranslator of four books by Jean-Luc Nancy. Table of Contents Translators 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 Review "A collection of dense and beautifully written and composed essays...Rich, powerful, and stunningly original." Francois Raffoul, Louisiana State University Promotional Corpus II is a collection of recent essays by Jean-Luc Nancy dealing with embodiment, sexuality, pleasure and the crossing of borders and boundaries. It is both a celebration of our sexual existence and an unflinching philosophical reflection on all our ways of being together. Long Description In this outstanding new collection, philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy takes up his perennial themes--community, embodiment, being-with, literature, politics, sense, and meaning--as 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 Lacans 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 finite pleasure, "finite because it reaches the end, the limit where the body tends to lose all form, becomes matter, an impenetrable mass. But this end also forms the touch of the outside and with it the joy of the world." Finally, "The Sexual Relation--and Then" builds on the insight into the central place of the sexual relation by considering specifically the generative possibilities of sex and the fact that we all came to be as the product of sexual relations. Nancys Corpus, published in English in 2008, was the philosophers most sustained consideration of embodiment to date. Now, in Corpus II, he carries that work in new directions which constantly remind us that human bodies are sexed and sexual bodies. Review Text "A collection of dense and beautifully written and composed essays. . . . Rich, powerful, and stunningly original." --Franois Raffoul, Louisiana State University Review Quote "A collection of dense and beautifully written and composed essays. . . .Rich, powerful, and stunningly original."-Franois Raffoul, Louisiana State University Promotional "Headline" A celebration of sexual existence and an unflinching philosophical reflection on unions, this collection of recent essays by Jean-Luc Nancy deals with embodiment, sexuality, pleasure and the crossing of borders and boundaries. Details ISBN0823240037 Publisher Fordham University Press Language English ISBN-10 0823240037 ISBN-13 9780823240036 Media Book Format Paperback Author Anne OByrne Translator Anne OByrne Residence US Affiliation Department of Philosophy, Universit Marc Bloch,Strasbourg Year 2013 Short Title CORPUS 2 Imprint Fordham University Press Subtitle Writings on Sexuality Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States UK Release Date 2013-10-18 AU Release Date 2013-10-18 NZ Release Date 2013-10-18 US Release Date 2013-10-18 Pages 160 Series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy Publication Date 2013-10-18 Alternative 9780823240029 DEWEY 306.701 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159674077;

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