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Intimacy - A Dialectical Study (Hardcover)
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Intimacy - A Dialectical Study (Hardcover)
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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 standards, since there is no consummate
form of intimacy. After analyzing ten major ways that we aim to
establish intimacy with one another, including gift-giving,
touching, and fetishes, the book concludes that each fails on its
own terms, since intimacy wants something that is impossible. The
very concept of intimacy is a superlative one; it aims not just for
closeness, but for a closeness beyond closeness. Nevertheless, far
from a pessimistic diagnosis of the human condition, this is a
meditation on how to live intimately in a world in which intimacy
is impossible. Rather than contenting itself with a deconstructive
approach, it proposes to treat intimacy dialectically. For all its
contradictions, it shows intimacy is central to how we understand
ourselves and our relations to others.
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