Sexuality and globalization an introduction to a phenomenology of sexualities /
The book argues that a universally widespread virility currently prevents humans from realizing their sexualities, which are originally the feminine and the masculine. This obstacle may be traced back to Renaissance humanism, whose core intention is to take control over the so-called 'nature.&q...
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Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
Language: | English |
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Recovering political philosophy
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137469298 |
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The book argues that a universally widespread virility currently prevents humans from realizing their sexualities, which are originally the feminine and the masculine. This obstacle may be traced back to Renaissance humanism, whose core intention is to take control over the so-called 'nature.". "With daring vulnerability and scope, Laurent Bibard opens us to the sex of our time, to our kind of time in which we incessantly seek to master nature, each other and ourselves. This sex has a religious history. We must step back from our de-sexed modernity into the possibility of recuperating the contradictory duality of masculinity and femininity that constitute us all. Only thus can we reveal our humanness and create a more habitable world." - Roger Friedland, Visiting Professor, Media, Culture and Communication, New York University, USA "Given the way it discusses sexuality as a core is |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9781137475251, 2014. |
Carrier Form: | 112 p. : 2 ill. |
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9781137469298 : 1137469293 : |
CLC: | C913.14 |
Contents: | 1. Appraisal 2. Insurrection 3. Christianity, Paganism, Judaism, the Fury of Practice 4. Moral Fractals 5. Interlacings 6. Drama 7. Methodological Approach 8. Contradictions: Lives, Decisions, Thoughts 9. Love. |