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Sex and Death: A Reappraisal of Human Mortality

Sex and Death: A Reappraisal of Human Mortality

by Beverley Clack (Author)

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    Paperback 2002

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Synopsis

This book exposes the way in which the preoccupation with transcendence in both religious and secular thinking has distorted our sense of what it is to be human. Sex and Death also offers an alternative approach to the debate, based on an acceptance of mortality that emphasizes the depth and profundity possible in human life.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 168
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Polity Press
Published: 01 Nov 2002
ISBN 10: 0745622798
ISBN 13: 9780745622798

Media Reviews
...[T]his book is passionate and temperate, thoughtful and bold. It is also beautifully written and a pleasure to read. Esther Reed, Reviews in Religion and Theology All of us were born; all of us will die; all of us are sexual. Beverley Clacka s new book takes an intelligent and thought--provoking look at these basic human realities, showing how spiritual meaning and physical reality conjoin. It is a wide--ranging and carefully argued book that makes unexpected and imaginative connections. It is also a book of compassionate humanity. Grace M. Jantzen, University of Manchester Western accounts of the best human life have usually pictured masculine reason and will as battling to transcend and escape from nature, sex and death, and have been marked by a weirdly negative attitude especially for the female reproductive apparatus. Beverley Clack rejects that whole tradition and instead sees the good life as growing out of an acceptance of the body, transience, sex and death. She boldly tackles, not just Augustine and Freud, but also Sade, head--on. This is a vigorous and enjoyable study, and (of course) shea s right. Don Cupitt, Emmanuel College, Cambridge This is an engaging and thoughtful piece of work, convincing in its own terms Elizabeth Stuart, Theology ...it [the book] leads readers to engage philosophically with arguments that have the potential to change their fundamental attitudes Stan van Hooft, Philosophy in Review
Author Bio
Beverley Clack is Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies and Philosophy at Oxford Brookes University. She is also the author of The Philosophy of Religion: An Introduction (Polity, 1998), with Brian R. Clack.