An exciting and innovative philosophy of desire. This deeply engaging work, which reads at moments like a poem, a prayer, or a love letter, performs dazzlingly what it also analyzes incisively--namely, the mutual touching, enfolding, and cutting-across of bodies, of words, and above all of bodies and words that meet (as they can only meet) at their limits.... MacKendrick's philosophy repeatedly touches upon theology, and her book should be read by theologians as well as philosophers and others interested in desire, language ...
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An exciting and innovative philosophy of desire. This deeply engaging work, which reads at moments like a poem, a prayer, or a love letter, performs dazzlingly what it also analyzes incisively--namely, the mutual touching, enfolding, and cutting-across of bodies, of words, and above all of bodies and words that meet (as they can only meet) at their limits.... MacKendrick's philosophy repeatedly touches upon theology, and her book should be read by theologians as well as philosophers and others interested in desire, language, embodiment, and the relation between them.Virginia Burrus, Drew Theological Seminary
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