Sal Renshaw's The subject of love: Helene Cixous and the Feminine Divine PDF

By Sal Renshaw

ISBN-10: 0719069602

ISBN-13: 9780719069604

*The topic of affection: Hélène Cixous and the female Divine* is set ample, beneficiant, other-regarding love. within the historical past of Western principles of affection, this kind of configuration has been inseparable from our principles approximately divinity and the sacred; usually reserved just for God; and infrequently regarded as a human success. This ebook is a considerable engagement together with her philosophies of affection, inviting the reader to mirror at the stipulations of subjectivity that simply could open us to whatever like a divine love of the opposite. Renshaw follows this thread during this family tree of considerable love: the thread that connects the topic of affection from fifth century B.C.E. Greece and Plato, to the 20 th century protestant theology of agapic love of Anders Nygren, to the past due twentieth century poetico-philosophy of Hélène Cixous. This research can be of specific curiosity to lecturers and scholars of the background of gender, cultural stories, feedback and gender studies

Show description

Read or Download The subject of love: Helene Cixous and the Feminine Divine (Manchester Studies in Religion, Culture and Gender) PDF

Best gender studies books

Download PDF by Adele Marie Barker,Jehanne M. Gheith: A History of Women's Writing in Russia

A historical past of Women's Writing in Russia bargains a accomplished account of the lives and works of Russia's ladies writers. in accordance with unique and archival study, this quantity forces a re-assessment of a few of the typically held assumptions approximately Russian literature and women's function within the culture.

Manly Arts: Masculinity and Nation in Early American Cinema by David A Gerstner PDF

During this leading edge research of the interconnections among country and aesthetics within the usa throughout the past due 19th century and the early 20th, David A. Gerstner finds the the most important function of early cinema in consolidating a masculine perfect lower than American capitalism. Gerstner describes how cinema got here to be thought of the artwork type of the recent international and the way its experimental traits infused different inventive traditions (many linked to Europe—painting, literature, or even images) with new lifestyles: brash, virile, American existence.

Download e-book for iPad: Le désir de maternité et la mort: Depuis la législation de by Yris Ertugral

Fondée sur le désir grâce au droit à l. a. birth control et à l'avortement, l. a. maternité s'affirme. Dans un monde où le formatage est de règle, des stéréotypes prévalent, d'une maternité radieuse, de son absence douloureuse ou anormale. Quels facteurs agissent dans le désir d'être mère ? Ou de ne pas l'être ?

Download e-book for kindle: Fetishism and Curiosity: Cinema and the Mind's Eye (BFI by Laura Mulvey

Author and film-maker Laura Mulvey is commonly considered as the most tough and incisive modern cultural theorists, credited for incorporating movie thought, psychoanalysis and feminism. a part of the pathbeating Nineteen Seventies new release of British movie theorists and autonomous film-makers, she got here to prominence together with her vintage essay at the pleasures – and displeasures – ofnarrative cinema, 'Visual excitement and Narrative Cinema'.

Extra info for The subject of love: Helene Cixous and the Feminine Divine (Manchester Studies in Religion, Culture and Gender)

Example text

Download PDF sample

The subject of love: Helene Cixous and the Feminine Divine (Manchester Studies in Religion, Culture and Gender) by Sal Renshaw


by Robert
4.0

Rated 4.50 of 5 – based on 43 votes