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

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Ecstatic Morality and Sexual Politics: A Catholic and Antitotalitarian Theory of the Body - McAleer, Graham James
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This first book-length treatment of Thomas Aquinas'stheory of the body presents a Catholic understanding of the body and its implications for social and political philosophy. Making a fundamental contribution to antitotalitarian theory, McAleer argues that a sexual politics reliant upon Aquinas's theory of the body is better (because less violent) than other commonly available theories. He contrasts this theory with those of four other groups of thinkers: the continental tradition represented by Kant, Schopenhauer, Merleau ...

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Ecstatic Morality and Sexual Politics: A Catholic and Antitotalitarian Theory of the Body 2005, Fordham University Press, New York

ISBN-13: 9780823224562

Hardcover