Resisting Nudities
A Study in the Aesthetics of Eroticism
©2008
Monographs
XII,
104 Pages
Summary
This provocative book re-conceives the erotic and its imaginative manifestations as an aesthetic ultimately driven by the disruption of desire. Critical, philosophical, and erotic texts construct a framework for understanding the aesthetics of eroticism including a «resisting nude» grounded in a theory of absence and the psychosocial dynamic of physical and mental surveillance. Resisting Nudities offers a necessary link between the poetry of jouissance and the revolt of body and mind intrinsic to the erotic, at a key moment in our contemporary cultural landscape. Written through a poetic lens, it is a creative new analysis of what George Bataille called the most intense of human moments.
Details
- Pages
- XII, 104
- Year
- 2008
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9780820486147
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- Ästhetik Nacktheit Erotik Gender Study Pop Culture Cultural study
- Published
- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2008. X, 104 pp.