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Living in the post-modern age, there is a growing sentiment of
disenchantment in relation to the most facile aspects of dogmatic
feminism. Nevertheless, the question of sexual difference still
remains. Sex, Breath and Force asks how we should approach such a
questioning today, given the fall of the great narratives and the
plethora of theoretical discourses in circulation. What are the
conditions of possibility for thinking of sexual difference as a
foundational problem in the age of technology? And, how do the
disciplines of social science, literary studies, philosophy, and
film studies answer this challenge? This collection of essays
provides a reassessment of the question of sexual difference,
taking into account important shifts in feminist thought,
post-humanist theories, and queer studies. The contributors offer
new and refreshing insights into the complex question of sexual
difference from a post-feminist perspective, and how it is
reformulated in various related areas of study, such as ontology,
epistemology, metaphysics, biology, technology, and mass media.
Living in the post-modern age, there is a growing sentiment of
disenchantment in relation to the most facile aspects of dogmatic
feminism. Nevertheless, the question of sexual difference still
remains. Sex, Breath and Force asks how we should approach such a
questioning today, given the fall of the great narratives and the
plethora of theoretical discourses in circulation. What are the
conditions of possibility for thinking of sexual difference as a
foundational problem in the age of technology? And, how do the
disciplines of social science, literary studies, philosophy, and
film studies answer this challenge? This collection of essays
provides a reassessment of the question of sexual difference,
taking into account important shifts in feminist thought,
post-humanist theories, and queer studies. The contributors offer
new and refreshing insights into the complex question of sexual
difference from a post-feminist perspective, and how it is
reformulated in various related areas of study, such as ontology,
epistemology, metaphysics, biology, technology, and mass media.
The blindness to ontological questioning in feminist theory has
left a lacuna in scholarly study that Touching Thought--a study at
the intersection of ontological meditation and feminist theorizing
on sexual difference--seeks to fill. Ellen Mortensen's new work
critiques the language and theoretical pathways of contemporary
feminist theorists such as Judith Butler, Rosi Braidotti, Elizabeth
Grosz, Luce Irigaray, Theresa de Lauretis, and Donna Haraway to
reveal a problematic predilection for technological language at the
expense of ontological inquiry. The volume ranges across feminist
epistemology and ethics, the politics of performativity, the
aesthetics of body/power, and the question of sexual difference and
concludes with an examination of the different philosophical and
theoretical attempts at undertaking an ontological questioning of
sexual difference. This foundational work will serve as preparation
for scholars of feminist and queer theory and continental
philosophy seeking alternative pathways of feminist thought that
encourage fundamental thinking on the subject of individual
freedom.
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