Tag: Sexuality

December 6, 2013

Levinas: For the Feminine Other – Part 3
The margins regularly produce some of the most pertinent voices. Mitchel Verter is a rather unknown and unrecognized scholar, who dissimulates this qualification of his on the background of his résumé, to highlight his professional activity as restaurant waiter and suicide counsellor. He has nonetheless written a series of fascinating essays on Levinas, Heidegger, Nietzsche and others, all available in his obscure page, hosted on a communitarian website…

November 30, 2012

Reason and the Senses :
A Dialogue Between Buddhism and Christianity
— Part 3

It is not as a sensational or a sensible but as a sensuous matter that sexuality is an important question of philosophy. A tradition’s discourse on sexuality can reveal two almost radically opposite loci…

November 30, 2012

Reason and the Senses :
A Dialogue Between Buddhism and Christianity
— Conclusion

In the course of this essay series, I have been able to highlight numbers of bridges, and occasionally, certain incompatibilities, between two major religious and spiritual traditions of our world : Christianity and Buddhism…

September 17, 2012

“Few pleasures are as robust as the simple country pleasure of sneezing.
The whole body ripples in orgasmic delight.”
Diane Ackerman.

“Orgasm is a metaphor.”
Julia…