"A cultural politics book." "With an afterword by Claire Colebrook"--from cover. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Sex "is" deconstruction / Irving Goh -- The deconstruction of sex : opening questions -- Troubling thought(s) : sex and deconstruction -- On touching-sex -- Who comes before/after sex? -- S/exscription -- Afterword: Sex and the killjoy / Claire Colebrook.
Summary:
"In The Deconstruction of Sex, Jean-Luc Nancy and Irving Goh suggest how a "deconstructive" approach to sex can help us not only to better understand how our everyday existences are always complicated by sex but also to think of more sensitive and respectful forms of sexual relations in the age of #metoo. Nancy and Goh explore why a deconstructive approach matters during #metoo as well as what it exposes to us about sex, our almost ineluctable relation to sex, and our relations both to ourselves and with others through sex. What are the risks, or even insensitivities, of this approach? What is the place of literary writings for such an approach? These are some of the questions the authors broach in this book, through which are made explicit too the stakes of sexistence, the reject, the force of touch or tact, and s/exscription for the topic of sex today"-- Provided by publisher.
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