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Ecstatic Morality and Sexual Politics : A Catholic and Antitotalitarian Theory of the Body.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Moral Philosophy and Moral TheologyPublisher: US : Fordham University Press, 2005Copyright date: ©2005Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (255 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780823247769
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ecstatic Morality and Sexual PoliticsDDC classification:
  • 233.5
LOC classification:
  • BX1795.B63
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Ecstatic Morality and Sexual Politics -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Desire and Violence -- Chapter 2: Ecstatic Being -- Chapter 3: The Politics of the Flesh -- Chapter 4: The Law of the Flesh -- Chapter 5: The Body as Cross -- Chapter 6: The Politics of the Flesh Revisited -- Chapter 7: Is Contraception a Human Right? -- Chapter 8: The Wedding Feast of the Lamb -- Chapter 9: The Politics of the Cross -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: This first book-length treatment of Thomas Aquinas's theory of the body presents a Catholic understanding of the body and its implications for social and political philosophy. Making a fundamental contribution to anti-totalitarian theory, McAleer argues, by way of contrasting with four other groups of thinkers, that a sexual politics reliant upon Aquinas's theory of the body is better than other commonly available theories.
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Intro -- Ecstatic Morality and Sexual Politics -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Desire and Violence -- Chapter 2: Ecstatic Being -- Chapter 3: The Politics of the Flesh -- Chapter 4: The Law of the Flesh -- Chapter 5: The Body as Cross -- Chapter 6: The Politics of the Flesh Revisited -- Chapter 7: Is Contraception a Human Right? -- Chapter 8: The Wedding Feast of the Lamb -- Chapter 9: The Politics of the Cross -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

This first book-length treatment of Thomas Aquinas's theory of the body presents a Catholic understanding of the body and its implications for social and political philosophy. Making a fundamental contribution to anti-totalitarian theory, McAleer argues, by way of contrasting with four other groups of thinkers, that a sexual politics reliant upon Aquinas's theory of the body is better than other commonly available theories.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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