{"product_id":"corpus-ii-writings-on-sexuality-paperback-softback-9780823240036","title":"Corpus II; Writings on Sexuality (Paperback \/ softback) 9780823240036","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCorpus II\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eWritings on Sexuality\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJean-Luc Nancy (Author), Anne O'Byrne (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823240036, Fordham University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 18 October 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e160 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.1 cm, 0.214 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e Nancy's \u003ci\u003eCorpus\u003c\/i\u003e, published in English in 2008, was the philosopher's most sustained consideration of embodiment to date. Now, in \u003ci\u003eCorpus II\u003c\/i\u003e, he carries that work in new directions which constantly remind us that human bodies are sexed and sexual bodies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52523345248536,"sku":"9780823240036","price":22.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/corpus-ii-writings-on-sexuality-paperback-softback-9780823240036","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}