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The Sex Appeal of the Inorganic by Perniola, Mario. is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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"We live in a world where the one-time opposition between things and humans has been transformed, where the center of contemporary sensibility is the encounter between philosophy and sexuality, where sex extends well beyond both the act and the body. We live in a world where to be sexy is to ignore the distinctions between animate and inanimate objects of desire, where the aesthetics of sex are being revolutionized. An organic sexuality, based on sex difference and driven by desire and pleasure, is being replaced by a neutral, inorganic and artificial sexuality, a sexuality always available but indifferent to beauty, age or form, a sexuality freed by thought from nature. The Sex Appeal of the Inorganic takes the reader on a radical, new tour of Western philosophy-from Descartes, Kant and Hegel to Heidegger, Wittgenstein and Sartre--to reframe our understanding of personal experience and the aesthetic, to examine how, if we are to remember how to feel, we must become a thing who feels, we must think ourselves closer to the inorganic world and move further from our bodies."--Bloomsbury Publishing We live in a world where the one-time opposition between things and humans has been tran
Who reads The Sex Appeal of the Inorganic?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Perniola, Mario.
- Publisher
- Continuum, 2004.
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780826462442
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Psychology, Gender Studies, Philosophy