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Intimacy: A Dialectical Study

Intimacy: A Dialectical Study


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An important contribution to the burgeoning field of the ethics of recognition, this book examines the contradictions inherent in the very concept of intimacy. Working with a wide variety of philosophical and literary sources, it warns against measuring our relationships against ideal standards, since there is no consummate form of intimacy. After analyzing ten major ways that we aim to establish intimacy with one another, including gift-giving, touching, and fetishes, the book concludes that each fails on its own terms, since intimacy wants something that is impossible. The very concept of intimacy is a superlative one; it aims not just for closeness, but for a closeness beyond closeness. Nevertheless, far from a pessimistic diagnosis of the human condition, this is a meditation on how to live intimately in a world in which intimacy is impossible. Rather than contenting itself with a deconstructive approach, it proposes to treat intimacy dialectically. For all its contradictions, it shows intimacy is central to how we understand ourselves and our relations to others.

Table of Contents:
Introduction Intimacy and Feeling Dialectics Limitations of dialectics Note on Terminology Chapter 1: The Gift Initiation Appeal and Delay Absenting A Measured Gift: Lysias's Speech Chapter 2: Touching Touching as shared experience Proportion The myth of the inmost touch The wound Chapter 3: The Heartbeat Systole and diastole Indifference and longing Chapter 4: The Between God and the space between The rupture Accessibility Chapter 5: The Fetish The interest The fetishized body The promise Chapter 6: Embedding The secret The third The neutralized third: gossip The generalized third: irony Fraudulence Chapter 7: Conflict The dismissal The dispute Violence Debate Chapter 8: The Mêlée Consumption, destruction, and waste Laughter Frenzy Millenarianism Chapter 9: The Future The test The commitment Planning Identification Anticipatory mourning Chapter 10: Mourning Gathering and retraction Haunting Singularity Afterward Bibliography Notes

About the Author :
Christopher Lauer is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at University of Hawai`i at Hilo, USA.

Review :
Chris Lauer cut his philosophical teeth on the rigors of German Idealism, especially Hegel and Schelling. He is also well-versed in contemporary Continental thought and has a profound sense of what is still living in German Idealism for contemporary thinking and living. It is with great pleasure that we now receive this "dialectical" account of intimacy (influenced by Hegel, Schelling, and critical theory, but not limited to them). Displaying impressive erudition, Lauer's new work is both strikingly original and a welcome new development in this venerable tradition. In a work that is both humble and profound, Christopher Lauer's dialectics uncovers intimacy's contradictions. Unraveling naïve, romantic and ironic notions alike, Intimacy testifies to the power and meaning of intimacy for human relationships, while ultimately arguing that intimacy cannot live up to its own demands. This is a masterful work of philosophy. Lauer artfully shows why dialectical thinking is relevant today, and he demonstrates what it looks like with respect to the issue of intimacy. Playful and unassuming, the scholarship is first-rate and wide-ranging in both scope and implications. The writing is fluid and purposeful. A must read for anyone interested in love, loss, community, and the stakes of contemporary philosophy.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781474226271
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: A Dialectical Study
  • ISBN-10: 1474226272
  • Publisher Date: 25 Feb 2016
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 224


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