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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789643703321

Autore

Beckman Frida

Titolo

Deleuze and sex / / edited by Frida Beckman [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2011

ISBN

0-7486-7175-7

1-283-25276-7

9786613252760

0-7486-4751-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vi, 244 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Deleuze connections

Disciplina

194

Soggetti

Sex - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

; Introduction. What is sex? : an introduction to the sexual philosophy of Gilles Deleuze / Frida Beckman -- Alien sex : Octavia Butler and Deleuze and Guattari's polysexuality / Ronald Bogue -- Heterotica : the 1000 tiny sexes of Anaìˆs Nin / Anna Powell -- Haemosexuality / Gretchen Riordan -- Disability, Deleuze and sex / Daniel Goodley and Rebecca Lawthom -- Tongue and trigger : Deleuze's erotics of the uncanny / Cara Judea Alhadeff -- (Hetero)sexing the child : Hans, Alice and the repressive hypothesis / Catherine Driscoll, Carina Garland and Anna Hickey-Moody -- The 'non-human sex' in sexuality : 'what are your special desiring-machines?' / Gregg Lambert -- Deleuze and selfless sex : undoing Kant's Copernican revolution / Jeffrey A. Bell -- A preface to pornotheology : Spinoza, Deleuze, and the sexing of angels / Charlie Blake -- Encounters of ecstasy / Patricia MacCormack -- Beyond sexuality : of love, failure and revolutions / Aislinn O'Donnell.

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of essays offers a fresh and new philosophical approach to the study of sex and sexuality as practice in the philosophy of Deleuze.