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Intimacy : a dialectical study /

"An important contribution to the burgeoning field of the ethics of recognition, this book examines the contradictions inherent in the very concept of intimacy. Working with a wide variety of philosophical and literary sources, it warns against measuring our relationships against ideal standard...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lauer, Christopher (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Intimacy and feeling
  • Dialectics
  • Limitations of dialectics
  • Note on terminology
  • 1 The Gift
  • Initiation
  • Appeal and delay
  • Absenting
  • A measured gift: Lysias's speech
  • 2 Touching
  • Touching as shared experience
  • Proportion
  • The myth of the inmost touch
  • The wound
  • 3 The Heartbeat
  • Systole and diastole
  • Indifference and longing
  • 4 The Between
  • God and the space between
  • The rupture
  • Accessibility
  • 5 The Fetish
  • The interest
  • The fetishized body
  • The promise
  • 6 Embedding
  • The secret
  • The third
  • The neutralized third: Gossip
  • The generalized third: Irony
  • Fraudulence
  • 7 Conflict
  • The dismissal
  • The dispute
  • Violence
  • Withdrawal
  • Debate
  • 8 The Mêlée
  • Consumption, destruction and waste
  • Laughter
  • Frenzy
  • Millenarianism
  • 9 The Future
  • The test
  • The commitment
  • Planning
  • Identification
  • Anticipatory mourning
  • 10 Mourning
  • Gathering and retraction
  • Haunting
  • Singularity.