Hatred of Sex (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781496230591)

Hatred of Sex links Jacques Ranci鑽e's political philosophy of the constitutive disorder of democracy with Jean Laplanche's identification of a fundamental perturbation at the heart of human sexuality. Sex is hated as well as desired, Oliver Davis and Tim Dean contend, because sexual intensity impedes coherent selfhood and undermines identity, rendering us all a little more deplorable than we might wish. Davis and Dean explore the consequences of this conflicted dynamic across a range of fields and institutions, including queer studies, attachment theory, the #MeToo movement, and "traumatology," demonstrating how hatred of sex has been optimized and exploited by neoliberalism.

Advancing strong claims about sex, pleasure, power, intersectionality, therapy, and governance, Davis and Dean shed new light on enduring questions of equality at a historical moment when democracy appears ever more precarious.

Author: Oliver Davis, Tim Dean
ISBN-10: 1496230590
ISBN-13: 9781496230591
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2022
Pages: 206
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.47d