Blind Date: Sex and Philosophy
"Blind date contains a host of pithy statements about the nature of sex, the nature of philosophy, and the nature of their implication. Its insights have the piquancy and unexpectedness associated with psychoanalysis at its best. Those interested in sex and/or contemporary French philosophy will find it a stimulating reading experience." Peter Connor, associate professor of French and comparative literature, Barnard College " ... the occasional insights that she wants to bring to the subject--that sex can be a part of love, that sexual desire is not reducible to appetite, that there are deep connections between eros, philosophy and God--are entirely lost, and we are left wondering why we shouldn't simply return to the infinitely deeper and much sexier musings of Plato, St. Augustine, Hegel, Schopenhauer and Sartre."--Times Literary Supplement, 25 APril 2008 This wide-ranging and provocative book is partly philosophical, partly a literary evocation of the pleasures and difficulties of sex and of thinking. -Alison Stone, senior lecturer in philosophy, Lancaster University and the author of Luce Irigaray and the Philosophy of Sexual Difference (2006) and An Introducation to Feminist Philosophy (2007).