The Eroticization of Distance: Nietzsche, Blanchot, and the Legacy of Courtly Love - Couverture rigide

Kuzma, Joseph D.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1498524389 ISBN 13 : 9781498524384

Editeur : Lexington Books, 2016

Synopsis

In The Eroticization of Distance: Nietzsche, Blanchot and the Legacy of Courtly Love, Joseph D. Kuzma explores the significance of courtly erotic themes in Friedrich Nietzsche's mature philosophy and in Maurice Blanchot's writings of the 1940s and early 1950s. Rather than offering an account of erotic relationality that prioritizes reconciliation, fulfillment, or release, Nietzsche attempts to formulate a nonteleological eroticism that aims at nothing but the perpetual intensification of desire. Kuzma suggests that it is Blanchot who carries Nietzsche's courtly erotic tendencies to their most provocative point, by highlighting potentials for intimate relationality that might be established through a shared experience of dispossession and loss. This first monograph to engage specifically with the theme of eroticism in Blanchot's writings will be of interest not only to students and scholars of Nietzsche, Blanchot, or French philosophy, but also anyone interested in the philosophy of sexuality, the history of love, theories of the emotions, or nineteenth and twentieth-century European thought more generally.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Joseph D. Kuzma is Teaching Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, USA.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lexington Books
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1498524389
• ISBN 13: 9781498524384
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 168
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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