Ecstatic Morality and Sexual Politics : : A Catholic and Antitotalitarian Theory of the Body / / Graham James McAleer.

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• VerfasserIn: McAleer, Graham James,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Moral Philosophy and Moral Theology
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Abbreviations --; Preface --; Chapter One: Desire and Violence --; Chapter Two: Ecstatic Being --; Chapter Three: The Politics of the Flesh --; Chapter Four: The Law of the Flesh --; Chapter Five: The Body as Cross --; Chapter Six: The Politics of the Flesh Revisited --; Chapter Seven: Is Contraception a Human Right? --; Chapter Eight: The Wedding Feast of the Lamb --; Chapter Nine: The Politics of the Cross --; Concluding Remarks --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780823293643; 9783111189604; 9783110707298
• DOI: 10.1515/9780823293643
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Graham James McAleer.

This first book-length treatment of Thomas Aquinas’stheory of the body presents a Catholic understanding of the body and its implications for social and political philosophy. Making a fundamental contribution to antitotalitarian theory, McAleer argues that a sexual politics reliant upon Aquinas’s theory of the body is better (because less violent) than other commonly available theories. He contrasts this theory with those of four other groups of thinkers: the continental tradition represented by Kant, Schopenhauer, Merleau-Ponty, Nancy, Levinas, and Deleuze; feminism, in the work of Donna Haraway; an alternative Catholic theory to be found in Karl Rahner; and the “Radical Orthodoxy” of John Milbank.