Eros Ideologies

Writings on Art, Spirituality, and the Decolonial

Bibliographic Data

ID9284755
AuthorsLaura Elisa Pérez (corresponding author)
Year2019
Pages272
Publication date2019-10-11
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueEros Ideologies (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1515/9780822372370
OpenAlexW3000360381
ISBN9780822372370
Open LibraryOL34089722M
LanguageEN
Citations received1

In Eros Ideologies Laura E. Pérez explores the decolonial through Western and non-Western thought concerning personal and social well-being. Drawing upon Jungian, people-of-color, and spiritual psychology alongside non-Western spiritual philosophies of the interdependence of all life-forms, she writes of the decolonial as an ongoing project rooted in love as an ideology to frame respectful coexistence of social and cultural diversity. In readings of art that includes self-portraits by Frida Kahlo, Ana Mendieta, and Yreina D. Cervántez, the drawings and paintings of Chilean American artist Liliana Wilson, and Favianna Rodriguez's screen-printed images, Pérez identifies art as one of the most valuable laboratories for creating, imagining, and experiencing new forms of decolonial thought. Such art expresses what Pérez calls eros ideologies: understandings of social and natural reality that foreground the centrality of respect and care of self and others as the basis for a more democratic and responsible present and future. Employing a range of writing styles and voices-from the poetic to the scholarly-Pérez shows how art can point to more just and loving ways of being

Aesthetics · Epistemology · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Spirituality · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Cuban History and Society · Economic and Social Issues · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · History · Law · Medicine · Philosophy · Art · Decolonization · Feminism · Love

Tools

Open DOILibgen