{"product_id":"9781501359125","title":"Posing Sex Toward a Perceptual Ethics for Literary and Visual Art","description":"\u003ch1\u003ePosing Sex\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eToward a Perceptual Ethics for Literary and Visual Art\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAlan Singer\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ Semiotics \u0026amp; Theory\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePosing Sex: Toward a Perceptual Ethics for Literary and Visual Art \u003c\/i\u003eviews the long and provocative tradition of representing the sexual act in Western art as an occasion for challenging assumptions about personhood.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is uncontroversial that what Singer dubs the “sex image,” the artist's posing of human figures in the act of coitus, is an enduring compositional armature for artists from antiquity to the present.  Singer, however, makes the quite controversial claim that this aesthetic practice, in literature and painting especially, serves as a powerful \u003ci\u003emétier\u003c\/i\u003e for exploring how the mind is continuous with the sensuously lively body rather than its rationalistic antagonist. Singer draws upon a rich philosophical tradition-from the Greek Stoics, Descartes, Spinoza, and Hegel to contemporary theorists of perception and aesthetic agency-to show how the stakes of aesthetic experience epitomized in the sex image are essentially ethical.  Referencing a broad range of image-based artworks-literary, painterly, and cinematic-Singer illustrates the proposition that “posing sex” broadens the scope of our knowledge about how feeling reciprocates with reason-giving.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAlan Singer\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English at Temple University, USA.  He is the author of four critical books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Self-Deceiving Muse: Notice and Knowledge in the Work of Art\u003c\/i\u003e (2010) and \u003ci\u003eAesthetic Reason: Artworks and the Deliberative Ethos \u003c\/i\u003e(2003). He is the author of many articles on aesthetics and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eLiterary Aesthetics: A Reader \u003c\/i\u003e(2001).\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e31 October 2019\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781501359125\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e232\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e11.04\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51332688543884,"sku":"9781501359125","price":43.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_b82e40f9-ebdb-4627-a519-5a007e3e2ee7.jpg?v=1783604997","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781501359125","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}