In this Book
- Ecstatic Morality and Sexual Politics: A Catholic and Antitotalitarian Theory of the Body
- Book
- 2005
- Published by: Fordham University Press
summary
This first book-length treatment of Thomas Aquinas'stheory of the body presents a Catholic understandingof the body and its implications for social and politicalphilosophy. Making a fundamental contribution toantitotalitarian theory, McAleer argues that a sexual politicsreliant upon Aquinas's theory of the body is better (becauseless violent) than other commonly available theories.He contrasts this theory with those of four other groupsof thinkers: the continental tradition represented by Kant,Schopenhauer, Merleau-Ponty, Nancy, Levinas, and Deleuze;feminism, in the work of Donna Haraway; an alternativeCatholic theory to be found in Karl Rahner; and theRadical Orthodoxyof John Milbank.
Table of Contents
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- Abbreviations
- pp. ix-x
- Chapter 1: Desire and Violence
- pp. 1-12
- Chapter 2: Ecstatic Being
- pp. 13-33
- Chapter 3: The Politics of the Flesh
- pp. 34-60
- Chapter 4: The Law of the Flesh
- pp. 61-73
- Chapter 5: The Body as Cross
- pp. 74-93
- Chapter 7: Is Contraception a Human Right?
- pp. 115-136
- Chapter 8: The Wedding Feast of the Lamb
- pp. 137-155
- Chapter 9: The Politics of the Cross
- pp. 156-179
- Concluding Remarks
- pp. 181-187
- Bibliography
- pp. 223-233
Additional Information
ISBN
9780823247769
Related ISBN(s)
9780823224562
MARC Record
OCLC
794702339
Pages
256
Launched on MUSE
2012-02-08
Language
English
Open Access
No