Ecstatic Morality and Sexual Politics : A Catholic and Antitotalitarian Theory of the Body / Graham James McAleer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McAleer, Graham James, Author.

Series:

Moral Philosophy and Moral Theology

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This first book-length treatment of Thomas Aquinas’stheory of the body presents a Catholic understanding of the body and its implications for social and political philosophy. Making a fundamental contribution to antitotalitarian theory, McAleer argues that a sexual politics reliant upon Aquinas’s theory of the body is better (because less violent) than other commonly available theories. He contrasts this theory with those of four other groups of thinkers: the continental tradition represented by Kant, Schopenhauer, Merleau-Ponty, Nancy, Levinas, and Deleuze; feminism, in the work of Donna Haraway; an alternative Catholic theory to be found in Karl Rahner; and the “Radical Orthodoxy” of John Milbank.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Abbreviations

Preface

Chapter One: Desire and Violence

Chapter Two: Ecstatic Being

Chapter Three: The Politics of the Flesh

Chapter Four: The Law of the Flesh

Chapter Five: The Body as Cross

Chapter Six: The Politics of the Flesh Revisited

Chapter Seven: Is Contraception a Human Right?

Chapter Eight: The Wedding Feast of the Lamb

Chapter Nine: The Politics of the Cross

Concluding Remarks

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780823293643

0823293645

OCLC:

1369655038