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Foucault and the Kamasutra (Paperback)
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Foucault and the Kamasutra (Paperback)
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The Kamasutra is best known in the West for its scandalous
celebration of unbridled sensuality. Yet, there is much, much more
to it; embedded in the text is a vision of the city founded on art
and aesthetic pleasure. In Foucault and the "Kamasutra", Sanjay K.
Gautam lays out the nature and origin of this iconic Indian text
and engages in the first serious reading of its relationship with
Foucault. Gautam shows how closely intertwined the history of
erotics in Indian culture is with the history of theater-aesthetics
grounded in the discourse of love, and Foucault provides the
framework for opening up an intellectual horizon of Indian thought.
To do this, Gautam looks to the history of three inglorious
characters in classical India: the courtesan and her two closest
male companions--her patron, the dandy consort; and her teacher and
advisor, the dandy guru. Foucault's distinction between erotic arts
and the science of sexuality drives Gautam's exploration of the
courtesan as a symbol of both sexual-erotic and aesthetic pleasure.
In the end, by entwining together Foucault's works on the history
of sexuality in the West and the classical Indian texts on eros,
Gautam transforms our understanding of both, even as he opens up
new ways of investigating erotics, aesthetics, gender relations,
and subjectivity.
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