Description
Our amorous and erotic experiences do not simply bring us pleasure; they shape our very identities, our ways of relating to ourselves, each other and our shared world. This volume reflects on some of our most prevalent assumptions relating to identity, the body, monogamy, libido, sexual identity, seduction, fidelity, orgasm, and more.The book covers common conflicts and confusions and includes work by established scholars and innovative new thinkers. Philosophically challenging but highly readable, the volume is ideal for a wide range of courses on love and sex, including those taught in philosophy and gender studies.
Chapter
Chapter Two Finding and Then Losing Your Way: Eros and the Other in Greek Literature and Philosophy
Chapter Three Love, and a Romantic Living Room: Remarks for an Inquiry on Ordinary Love Today
Understanding an Understanding of Love
What Is a Living Room? Pros and Cons of a Minimal Definition
The Importance of Being Ordinary
Contemporary Patterns: Some Introductory Remarks
Chapter Four Love at the Limit of Phenomenology (à la Sartre and Marion)
I. The Transcendental Question: How Does Love Appear?
II. Decentering Reflection: From Being to Event
III. Crossing, or: Not One but Two
IV. The Appearance of a World
Chapter Five Monogamism and Polyamorism: A Weberian Analysis
Ideal Types of Monogamism and Polyamorism
Part III Sex, Love, and Agency
Chapter Six Friendless Women and the Myth of Male Nonage: Why We Need a Better Science of Love and Sex
Nose-Sprays, Norms, and Non-Agents: Ethical Failings of the Current Science of Monogamy
The Data: What We Are Given
Love, Sex, and Science Fiction
Telling a Different Story: The Science of Commitment
Living Commitment: Restoring and Redistributing Agency in Monogamous Relationships
Chapter Seven The Revolutionary Politics of Love: Pussy Riot and Punk Rock as Feminist Practice
Feminist Love and Serious Activism
The Politics of the Erotic and Pussy Riot’s Project of Bringing Joy
Chapter Eight Paradox in Practice: What We Can Learn about Love from Relationships between Parents and Young Adult Children
Part IV Embodiment and Culture
Chapter Ten Failed Medicalization and the Cultural Iconography of Feminine Sexuality
What is Medicalization and When Is It Appropriate?
Big Pharma and the Hard Phallus
Female Sexual Dysfunction: The State of the Science
The Failure of the Attempt to Medicalize Female Sexuality
Imagining Female Sexuality and the Myth of Feminine Mystery
Female Sexuality in the Scientific Imagination
Chapter Eleven Being Through Love: The Collaborative Construction of a Sexual Body
Merleau-Ponty and the Sexual Body
“Passivity” in the Creation of Sexuality
Passing, Acceptance, and Love
Part V Truth and Deception
Chapter Twelve The Power of Seduction
The Character of Sexual Communication
The Examination of Seduction in Plato’s Phaedrus: The Tale of Oreithuia
The Dual Nature of Seduction
Chapter Thirteen Some Notes on Faking
Important Enough to Be Faked
Social Constitution of Bodies, Social Conditioning of Experience
Heteronormativity in the Cultural Signification of Orgasms
Faking Orgasms and the Loss of Playful Loving
New Philosophies of Sex and Love
：Thinking Through Desire
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