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Philosophy and Desire Hugh J. Silverman

Philosophy and Desire By Hugh J. Silverman

Philosophy and Desire by Hugh J. Silverman

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The theme of desire is explored through readings of contemporary thinkers such as Merleau-Ponty, Bataille, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Levinas, Irigaray, Barthes and Derrida.

Philosophy and Desire Summary

Philosophy and Desire by Hugh J. Silverman

Philosophy and Desire , the seventh book in the well-known Continental Philosophy series, examines questions of desire--desire for another person, desire for happiness, desire for knowledge, desire for a better world, desire for the impossible, desire in text, desire in language and desire for desire itself. The theme of desire is explored through readings of contemporary figures such as Merleau-Ponty, Bataille, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Levinas, Irigaray, Barthes, Derrida, and Derrida. A hot, timely topic in philosophy today Expands the contemporary debates

About Hugh J. Silverman

Hugh J. Silverman is Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is also Executive Director of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature as well as Chief Editor of Routledge's Continental Philosophy series.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Hugh J. Silverman; Part I Erotic Practices/Erotic Transgressions; 2. Aletheia, Poiesis, and Eros: Truth and Untruth in the Poetic Construction of Love, M. C. Dillon; 3. Batailles Eroticism, Now: From Transgression to Insidious Sorcery, Marc J. LaFountain; Part II Desire for the Other: Levinas; 4. The (Non)Logic of Desire and War: Hegel and Levinas, Brian Schroeder; 5. Inscribing the Sites of Desire in Levinas, Bettina G. Bergo; Part III Desiring Subjectivity: Sartre and De Beauvoir; 6. Sartre: Desiring the Impossible, Christina Howells; 7. Simone De Beauvoirs Desire to Express La Joie DExister, Eleanore Holveck; Part IV Reading Feminine Desire: Irigaray; 8. Situating Irigaray, Simon Patrick Walter; 9. Irigarays Discourse on Feminine Desire: Literalist and Strategic Readings, Dorothy Leland; Part V Writing Desire: Barthes and Derrida; ch0010 A Lovers Reply (To Roland Barthess A Lovers Discourse), Robert C. Solomon; 11. In this Text Where I Never Am: Discourses of Desire in Derrida, Nancy J. Holland; Part VI Productive Desire: Deleuze and Guattari; 12. Spinoza, Nietzsche, Deleuze: An Other Discourse of Desire, Alan D. Schrift; 13. Deleuze and Guattari: Flows of Desire and the Body, Dorothea E. Olkowski;

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NPB9780415919562
9780415919562
0415919568
Philosophy and Desire by Hugh J. Silverman
Hugh J. Silverman
Continental Philosophy
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2000-01-31
264
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