Beauty between Repression and Coercion
A Few Thoughts on Richard Shusterman’s Ars Erotica: Sex and Somaesthetics in the Classical Arts of Love
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12947362 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leszek Koczanowicz (0000-0002-4204-1674, Uniwersytet SWPS, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 37-44 |
| Publication date | 2021-12-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Foucault Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1832-5203 • E-ISSN: 1832-5203 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.22439/fs.vi31.6455 |
| OpenAlex | W4200251939 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Love and sex are central notions in all reflection on humanity. And for obvious reasons, too. These notions defy any simple definition because they connote and reference an almost innumerable multitude of things. Moreover, these notions are highly amenable to social factors and have always been enmeshed in plentiful limitations, prohibitions, and precepts. Consequently, when pondering them, thinkers inevitably find themselves speaking from particular political and cultural discourses and cannot possibly retain a neutral distance to their object of research. Another noteworthy thing is that all considerations of sexual life provoke questions about modernity and postmodernity in this respect. The profound changes that have swept across this sphere of human life over the last 150 years prompt historical -or, to use Michel Foucault's term, genealogical -research aimed at establishing what factors made them possible or, even, what brought them about
Aesthetics · Art · Beauty · Biology · Coercion (linguistics · Linguistics · Psychological repression · Sociology · The arts · Visual arts · Philosophy · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |