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Vandoren, Desire --- Deroost, Sylvia

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"What is so radical about not having sex? To answer this question, this collection of essays explores the feminist and queer politics of asexuality. Asexuality is predominantly understood as an orientation describing people who do not experience sexual attraction. In this multidisciplinary volume, the authors expand this definition of asexuality to account for the complexities of gender, race, disability, and medical discourse. Together, these essays challenge the ways in which we imagine gender and sexuality in relation to desire and sexual practice. Asexualities provides a critical reevaluation of even the most radical queer theorizations of sexuality. Going beyond a call for acceptance of asexuality as a legitimate and valid sexual orientation, the authors offer a critical examination of many of the most fundamental ways in which we categorize and index sexualities, desires, bodies, and practices.As the first book-length collection of critical essays ever produced on the topic of asexuality, this book serves as a foundational text in a growing field of study. It also aims to reshape the directions of feminist and queer studies, and to radically alter popular conceptions of sex and desire. Including units addressing theories of asexual orientation; the politics of asexuality; asexuality in media culture; masculinity and asexuality; health, disability, and medicalization; and asexual literary theory, Asexualities will be of interest to scholars and students in sexuality, gender, sociology, cultural studies, disability studies, and media culture." --

Sex. --- Sexual attraction. --- Sexual orientation. --- Sexual desire disorders. --- Asexuality (Sexual orientation) --- Feminist theory. --- Queer theory.

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Lawyers --- Legal literature --- Avocats --- Droit --- Biography --- History --- Biographies --- Documentation --- Histoire --- Sirey, J. B. --- Dalloz, Victor Alexis Désiré, --- Sirey, Jean-Baptiste --- Sirey, Jean-Baptiste, --- Dalloz, Désiré, --- Dalloz. --- Histoire. --- Dalloz, Désiré --- Dalloz

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Theology in the modern era often assumes that the consummate form of theological discourse is objective prose—ignoring or condemning apophatic traditions and the spiritual eros that drives them. For too long, Kierkegaard has been read along these lines as a progenitor of twentieth-century neo-orthodoxy and a stern critic of the erotic in all its forms. In contrast, Hughes argues that Kierkegaard envisions faith fundamentally as a form of infinite, insatiable eros. He depicts the essential purpose of Kierkegaard’s writing as to elicit ever-greater spiritual desire, not to provide the satisfactions of doctrine or knowledge.Hughes’s argument revolves around close readings of provocative, disparate, and (in many cases) little-known Kierkegaardian texts. The thread connecting all of these texts is that they each conjure up some sort of performative “stage setting,” which they invite readers to enter. By analyzing the theological function of these texts, the book sheds new light on the role of the aesthetic in Kierkegaard’s authorship, his surprising affinity for liturgy and sacrament, and his overarching effort to conjoin eros for God with this-worldly love.

Desire --- Theater --- Performance --- Theology --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- History --- Kierkegaard, Soren, --- Derrida. --- Kierkegaard. --- Levinas. --- Luther/Lutheranism. --- desire/eros. --- faith. --- liturgy. --- mysticism. --- performance. --- sacrament. --- theater. --- theology.

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'In Praise of Desire' aims to show that ordinary desires belong at the heart of moral psychology, basing its thesis on a doctrine called Spare Conativism. It gives a full defence of the central role intrinsic desires have in our moral lives.

Desire (Philosophy) --- Ethics. --- Virtue. --- Virtues. --- Virtue --- Conduct of life --- Ethics --- Human acts --- Deontology --- Ethics, Primitive --- Ethology --- Moral philosophy --- Morality --- Morals --- Philosophy, Moral --- Science, Moral --- Philosophy --- Values