Corpus II: Writings on Sexuality

by Jean-Luc Nancy

Book Overview

In this outstanding new collection, philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy takes up his perennial themes--community, embodiment, being-with, literature, politics, sense, and meaning--as part of a deep and mature appreciation of the fact that we are richly, joyfully, and thoroughly sexual beings.

In a concise but extremely important essay, "The 'There Is' of the Sexual Relation," Nancy responds to Lacan's dictum that "there is no sexual relation" and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823240029
• ISBN13: 9780823240029
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"