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

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-Ponty, Nancy, Levinas, and Deleuze; feminism, in the work of Donna Haraway; an alternative Catholic theory to be found in Karl Rahner; and the "Radical Orthodoxy" of John Milbank.

Author: Graham James McAleer
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 05/01/2005
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.44w x 0.95d
ISBN: 9780823224562

About the Author
G.J. McAleer is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Loyola College in Maryland and the editor, with Guy Guldentrops, of Henry Bate, Speculum divinorum et quorundam naturalium, books 8-10.