Sex and Death: A Reappraisal of Human MortalityISBN: 978-0-7456-2278-1
Hardcover
168 pages
November 2002, Polity
Other Available Formats: Paperback
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"All of us were born; all of us will die; all of us are sexual.
Beverley Clack'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) she'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