Somatic Desire
Horton, Sarah / Mendelsohn, Stephen / Rojcewicz, Christine
The essays in this volume all ask what it means for human beings to be embodied as desiring creatures--and perhaps still more piercingly, what it means for a philosopher to be embodied. In taking up this challenge via phenomenology, psychoanalysis, hermeneutics, and the philosophy of literature, the volume questions the orthodoxies not only of Western metaphysics but even of the phenomenological tradition itself. We miss much that has philosop...