Philosophy and Desire

Hugh J. Silverman is Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is also Executive Director of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature as well as Chief Editor of Routledge's Continental Philosophy series.

• 1. Introduction, Hugh J. Silverman; Part I Erotic Practices/Erotic Transgressions; 2. Aletheia, Poiesis, and Eros: Truth and Untruth in the Poetic Construction of Love, M. C. Dillon; 3. Bataille’s Eroticism, Now: From Transgression to Insidious Sorcery, Marc J. LaFountain; Part II Desire for the Other: Levinas; 4. The (Non)Logic of Desire and War: Hegel and Levinas, Brian Schroeder; 5. Inscribing the “Sites” of Desire in Levinas, Bettina G. Bergo; Part III Desiring Subjectivity: Sartre and De Beauvoir; 6. Sartre: Desiring the Impossible, Christina Howells; 7. Simone De Beauvoir’s Desire to Express La Joie D’Exister, Eleanore Holveck; Part IV Reading Feminine Desire: Irigaray; 8. Situating Irigaray, Simon Patrick Walter; 9. Irigaray’s Discourse on Feminine Desire: Literalist and Strategic Readings, Dorothy Leland; Part V Writing Desire: Barthes and Derrida; ch0010 A Lover’s Reply (To Roland Barthes’s A Lover’s Discourse), Robert C. Solomon; 11. In this Text Where I Never Am: Discourses of Desire in Derrida, Nancy J. Holland; Part VI Productive Desire: Deleuze and Guattari; 12. Spinoza, Nietzsche, Deleuze: An Other Discourse of Desire, Alan D. Schrift; 13. Deleuze and Guattari: Flows of Desire and the Body, Dorothea E. Olkowski;