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9780415919579

Philosophy and Desire

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415919579

  • ISBN10:

    0415919576

  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2000-01-31
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

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

Table of Contents

Introduction
Twentieth-Century Desire and the Histories of Philosophy
1(16)
Hugh J. Silverman
I. Erotic Practices / Erotic Transgressions
Aletheia, Poiesis, and Eros: Truth and Untruth in the Poetic Construction of Love
17(9)
M. C. Dillon
Bataille's Eroticism, Now: From Transgression To Insidious Sorcery
26(19)
Marc J. LaFountain
II. Desire for the Other: Levinas
The (Non)Logic of Desire and War: Hegel and Levinas
45(18)
Brian Schroeder
Inscribing the ``Sites'' of Desire in Levinas
63(22)
Bettina G. Bergo
III. Desiring Subjectivity: Sartre and de Beauvoir
Sartre: Desiring the Impossible
85(11)
Christina Howells
Simone De Beauvoir's Desire To Express La Joie D'Exister
96(15)
Eleanore Holveck
IV. Reading Feminine Desire: Irigaray
Situating Irigaray
111(14)
Simon Patrick Walter
Irigaray's Discourse on Feminine Desire: Literalist and Strategic Readings
125(18)
Dorothy Leland
V. Writing Desire: Barthes and Derrida
A Lover's Reply (To Roland Barthes's A Lover's Discourse)
143(16)
Robert C. Solomon
In This Text Where I Never Am: Discourses of Desire in Derrida
159(14)
Nancy Holland
VI. Productive Desire: Deleuze and Guattari
Spinoza, Nietzsche, Deleuze: An Other Discourse of Desire
173(13)
Alan D. Schrift
Deleuze and Guattari: Flows of Desire and the Body
186(23)
Dorothea Olkowski
Notes 209(26)
Bibliography 235(14)
Contributors 249(4)
About the Editor 253

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