Literature & Literary Studies
January 2019
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Literature & Literary StudiesJanuary 2019Texts and readers in the Age of Marvell
by Christopher D'Addario, Matthew C. Augustine, Christopher D'Addario, Michael Scoenfeldt, Randy Robertston, Derek Hirst, Kathleen Lynch, Nigel Smith, Timothy Raylor, Anne Cotterill, Joad Raymond, Matthew C. Augustine, Michael McKeon, Steven Zwicker
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June 2019Sexualität und Wahrheit
Vierter Band: Die Geständnisse des Fleisches
by Michel Foucault, Andrea Hemminger
Es ist eine Sensation und »ein postumes Wunder« (L'Express): Dreieinhalb Jahrzehnte nach dem Tod des Autors erscheint der vierte und letzte Band von Sexualität und Wahrheit – Michel Foucaults großangelegter Geschichte der Sexualität und Meilenstein philosophischer Forschung im 20. Jahrhundert. Die Geständnisse des Fleisches, von Foucault noch auf dem Sterbebett vollendet, schließt an die legendären Vorgängerbände an und zeugt einmal mehr von der Ausnahmestellung dieses Denkers. Im Mittelpunkt stehen die ethischen Diskussionen der Kirchenväter über das Geschlechtsleben in den ersten frühchristlichen Jahrhunderten. Foucault liest die Predigten und Abhandlungen von Clemens von Alexandria, Gregor von Nyssa, Johannes Chrysostomos, Johannes Cassianus oder Augustinus von Hippo als Dokumente einer Sorge um das Seelenheil – als Zeugnisse der Herausbildung einer neuen Moral und Selbsterfahrung, die das Abendland fortan prägen sollten. Insbesondere die Jungfräulichkeit und die Ehe stehen dabei im Fokus der Auseinandersetzungen, die bei Augustinus in eine bis in unsere Gegenwart wirkende Ökonomie der Begierde münden: in eine konstitutive Pflicht des Subjekts zur stetigen Problematisierung des Verhältnisses von Freiheit und Natur, von Vernunft und Begehren.
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PHILOSOPHER’S LOVE – FROM SOCRATES TO FOUCAULT
by Manfred Geier
Love is a long-burning issue of philosophy. From antiquity to the present day, people have philosophised about love, which reveals itself in a variety of forms and norms. But what really happens when philosophers not only philosophise, but also love, from the initial games of seduction to the culmination of sexual lust? With the aid of eleven biographical case studies, from Socrates and Augustine to Martin Heidegger and Michael Foucault, Manfred Geier, author of several biographies on philosophers, documents how without their erotic lust, the philosophers would not have become searchers of wisdom.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2009Men in political theory
by Terrell Carver
Men in political theory builds on feminist re-readings of the traditional canon of male writers in Political Philosophy by turning the 'gender lens' on to the representation of men in widely studies texts. It explains the distinction between 'man' as an apparently de-gendered 'individual' or 'citizen', and 'man' as an overtly gendered being in human society. Both these representations of 'man' are crucial to a clearer understanding of the operation of gender. Newly available in paperback, the book is the first to use the 'men's studies' and 'masculinities' literatures in re-thinking the political problems that students and specialists in the social sciences and humanities must encounter: consent, obligation, patriarchy, gender, sexuality, life-cycle, and discriminatory disadvantage related to sex, age, class, race/ethnicity and disability. It does this by re-examining the historical materials from which present-day concepts of citizenship, individuality, identity, subjectivity, normativity and legitimacy arise. The ten chapters on Plato, Aristotle, Jesus, Augustine, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Marx and Engels show the operation of the 'gender lens' in different ways, depending on how the philosopher deploys concepts of men and masculinity to pose and solve classic problems. They can all be read independently and are as suitable for those just making the acquaintance of these classic writers as for those with specialist knowledge and interests. ;
