Author: Stella Sandford
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Size: 32.91 MB
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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What does the study of Plato’s dialogues tell us about the modern meaning of ‘sex’? How can recent developments in the philosophy of sex and gender help us read these ancient texts anew? Plato and Sex addresses these questions for the first time. Each chapter demonstrates how the modern reception of Plato’s works Ð in both mainstream and feminist philosophy and psychoanalytical theory Ð has presupposed a ‘natural-biological’ conception of what sex might mean. Through a critical comparison between our current understanding of sex and Plato’s notion of genos, Plato and Sex puts this presupposition into question. With its groundbreaking interpretations of the Republic, the Symposium and the Timaeus, this book opens up a new approach to sex as a philosophical concept. Including critical readings of the theories of sex and sexuation in Freud and Lacan, and relating such theories to Plato’s writings, Plato and Sex both questions our assumptions about sex and explains how those assumptions have coloured our understanding of Plato. What results is not only an original reading of some of the most prominent aspects of Plato’s philosophy, but a new attempt to think through the meaning of sex today.

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Publisher: Polity
Size: 45.60 MB
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Languages : en
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Author: Alan Soble
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group
Size: 72.72 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : Sex
Languages : en
Pages : 1176
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More than 150 alphabetically arranged entries on topics, thinkers, religions, movements, and concepts locate sexuality in its humanistic and social contexts.

Author: Alan Soble
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group
Size: 11.25 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Sex
Languages : en
Pages : 1176
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More than 150 alphabetically arranged entries on topics, thinkers, religions, movements, and concepts locate sexuality in its humanistic and social contexts.

Author: Morag Buchan
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Size: 21.25 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 189
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Publisher description: This book examines the role of the female and the feminine in Plato's philosophy, and suggests that Plato's views on women are central to his political philosophy. Morag Buchan explores Plato's writings to argue his notions of the inferior female and the superior male. While Plato appears to allow women equal opportunity and participation of political life in the Ideal State in The Republic, his motivation rests on masculine ideals. Women in Plato's Political Theory examines issues including women's relationship to men, to reproduction, to rational thought and politics in Plato's work, and addresses more generally the problem of sexual identity in philosophy. This book is an important contribution toward a wider interpretation of Platonic philosophy.

Author: Alan Soble
Publisher: Rodopi
Size: 40.91 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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This collection joins together sixty essays on the philosophy of love and sex. Each was presented at a meeting of The Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love held between 1977 and 1992 and later revised for this edition. Topics addressed include ethical and political issues (AIDS, abortion, homosexual rights, and pornography), conceptual matters (the nature, essence, or definition of love, friendship, sexual desire, and perversion); the study of classical and historical figures (Plato, Aristotle, Spinoza, Kant, and Kierkegaard); and issues in feminist theory (sexual objectification, the social construction of female sexuality, reproductive and marital arrangements). Authors include Jerome Shaffer, Sandra Harding, Michael Ruse, Richard Mohr, Russell Vannoy, Claudia Card, M.C. Dillon, Gene Fendt, Steven Emmanuel, T.F. Morris, Timo Airaksinen, and Sylvia Walsh. The editor, who is the author of Pornography (1986), The Structure of Love (1990), and Sexual Investigations (1996), has also contributed six pieces and an Introduction.

Author: Christine Downing
Publisher: iUniverse
Size: 53.69 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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"Myths and Mysteries of Same-Sex Love makes a powerful statement about the realities of gay and lesbian psyche. A gay and lesbian psychic perspective may at first be startling, but once examined, it proves to be unforgettable." -The Advocate

Author: Prudence Allen
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Size: 34.93 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 583
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This pioneering study by Sister Prudence Allen traces the concept of woman in relation to man in more than seventy philosophers from ancient and medieval traditions. The fruit of ten years' work, this study uncovers four general categories of questions asked by philosophers for two thousand years. These are the categories of opposites, of generation, of wisdom, and of virtue. Sister Prudence Allen traces several recurring strands of sexual and gender identity within this period. Ultimately, she shows the paradoxical influence of Aristotle on the question of woman and on a philosophical understanding of sexual coomplemenarity. Supplemented throughout with helpful charts, diagrams, and illustrations, this volume will be an important resource for scholars and students in the fields of women's studies, philosophy, history, theology, literary studies, and political science.

Author: Kenneth Royce Moore
Publisher: Routledge
Size: 12.95 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Sex and the Second-Best City deals with the topics of sex and society in the Laws of Plato with recourse to historical context and modern critical theory. It examines reconstructions of ancient "sexuality" with a view to increased clarification. The text of the Laws is considered, along with many of its literary qualities, its influences and the utopian plan that it proposes.

Author: Don E. Marietta
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Size: 59.36 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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This text offers a broad range of topics relating to the philosophy of sexuality. These include: morality; adultery; sex and gender differences; romantic love; gender-based speech; marriage; family and parenthood; feminism; and others.

Author: S. Gonzalez-Arnal
Publisher: Springer
Size: 25.37 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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This interdisciplinary collection explores the role the body plays in constituting our sense of self, signalling the interplay between material embodiment, social meaning, and material and social conditions.

Author: Elena Tzelepis
Publisher: SUNY Press
Size: 24.72 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 301
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A transdisciplinary reader on Luce Irigaray's reading and re-writing of Ancient Greek texts.