Zeynep Direk

Ontologies of Sex (eBook, PDF)

Philosophy in Sexual Politics

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Ontologies of Sex: Philosophy in Sexual Politics considers the ontological presuppositions of feminist theories of sexual difference and brings them into conversation with phenomenological, ontological accounts of erotic experience. Erotic relation is a corporeal, intimate, and affective encounter with the other in which the subjects have the possibility of being revealed to themselves and to each other in who they are. In eroticism, law paradoxes, death, abjection, subjectivity, sovereignty, commitment, engagement, freedom are at stake. By inquiring into various types of analyzes of sexual oppression and different accounts of ethics of Eros, this book invites the reader to deepen their existential reflection on the significance of Eros for human life in general, and for political subjectivity in particular.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798881857776
• Artikelnr.: 74833087

Autorenporträt

Zeynep Direk obtained her Ph. D from the University of Memphis in 1998. She is professor at Koç University, Department of Philosophy in Istanbul, Turkey. She publishes on contemporary French philosophy, ethics, political philosophy, feminism, and the history of Turkish philosophy. Her research on feminism focuses on feminist thinkers' interpretations of the fundamental problems and concepts of Western philosophy. She has co-edited, with Leonard Lawlor, A Companion to Derrida (2014), and is the author of three books in Turkish.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: Simone de Beauvoir: An Ontology and Ethics of Freedom
Chapter 2: Georges Bataille: Erotic Experience
Chapter 3: The Problem of Phallocentrism
Chapter 4: Different Ontologies in Queer Theory
Chapter 5: Jean Luc-Nancy: An Ontology of Sex
Chapter 6: Subjects of Rights: From Vulnerability to Autonomy
Conclusion