Sex Appeal of the Inorganic : Philosophies of Desire in the Modern World

by Perniola, Mario; Verdicchio, Massimo

• ISBN13: 9780826462442
• ISBN10: 0826462448
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-03-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Academic

Author Biography

Mario Perniola is Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Rome at Tor Vergata. Massimo Verdicchio is Professor of Italian in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada

Table of Contents

1 Senses and Things	1	(1)
2 Sex Plateaux	2	(2)
3 God, Animal, Thing	4	(3)
4 Descartes and the Thing that Feels	7	(3)
5 Becoming Extraneous Clothing	10	(4)
6 Exemplary Addictions	14	(4)
7 Kant and the Spouse as Thing	18	(3)
8 Sadism and Sex Appeal of the Inorganic	21	(7)
9 Philosophical Cybersex	28	(9)
10 Kant and the Feeling of the Thing in itself	37	(4)
11 Masochism and Sex Appeal of the Inorganic	41	(4)
12 Bodies as Clothing	45	(5)
13 Hegel and the Thing as 'not this'	50	(3)
14 Fetishism and Sex Appeal of the Inorganic	53	(12)
15 Hardcore Sonority	65	(6)
16 Hegel and the Thing as 'also'	71	(5)
17 Vampirism and Sex Appeal of the Inorganic	76	(7)
18 Plastic Landscapes	83	(9)
19 Hegel and the Thing 'all of one piece'	92	(4)
20 Desire and Sex Appeal of the Inorganic	96	(6)
21 Overflowing Installations	102	(6)
22 Heidegger and the Thing as Reliability	108	(6)
23 Division and Sex Appeal of the Inorganic	114	(7)
24 Inclusive Metawritings	121	(6)
25 Wittgenstein and the Feeling of 'this thing'	127	(5)
26 Pleasure and Sex Appeal of the Inorganic	132	(10)
27 Perverse Performance	142	(3)
Notes	145	(1)
Index of Names	146