Between Desire and Pleasure : : A Deleuzian Theory of Sexuality / / Frida Beckman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Beckman, Frida,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Plateaus - New Directions in Deleuze Studies : PLAT
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)

Explores the political, cultural and conceptual significance of sexual pleasure through Deleuze's philosophyGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748645923','ISBN:9780748645930','ISBN:9780748682294']);How is sexual pleasure inscribed into conceptions of the body, gender, health and the human? What is its role in the construction of these notions? And, most importantly, how can it contribute to an expansion of what they mean?Intervening into fields including posthumanist, disability, animal and feminist studies, and current critiques of capitalism and consumerism, Frida Beckman addresses these questions to recover a theory of sexuality from Deleuze's work.Key FeaturesA definitive contribution to cultural, conceptual and political debates about sexualityLooks at Deleuze’s writing on sexuality from both historical and conceptual perspectives to show how he interacts with both other thinkers and sexuality in practiceCompares Deleuze's sexual theories to those of Michel Foucault – one of the most influencial theorists of sexuality in Continental philosophy and critical theory – analysing the differences, similarities and interrelations"

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The Body without Orgasm -- 1 A Nonlinear History of Sexuality: Deleuze with Foucault -- 2 Psychoanalysis Unhinged: Deleuze with Lacan, Klein and Reich -- 3 Folding, Individuation and the Pleasurable Body -- 4 Orgasmic Feminism -- 5 Disabling Sex: Inventing a People who are Missing -- 6 Becoming-Animal and the Posthuman Orgasm -- 7 Capitalism and Sexuality -- Epilogue: Swedish Sin, or the Importance of Remaining Curious -- Bibliography -- Index