{"product_id":"9780822379447","title":"Gaze and Voice as Love Objects: SIC 1","description":"The gaze entices, inspects, fascinates. The voice hypnotizes, seduces, disarms. Are \u003ci\u003egaze \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003evoice\u003c\/i\u003e part of the relationship we call love . . . or hate? If so, what part? How do they function? This provocative book examines love as the mediating entity in the essential antagonism between the sexes, and \u003ci\u003egaze\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003evoice\u003c\/i\u003e as love's medium. The contributors proceed from the Lacanian premise that \"there is no sexual relationship,\" that the sexes are in no way complementary and that love—figured in the gaze and the voice —embodies the promise and impossibility of any relation between them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first detailed Lacanian elaboration of this topic, \u003ci\u003eGaze and Voice as Love Objects \u003c\/i\u003eexamines the status of gaze, voice, and love in philosophy from Plato to Kant, in ideology from early Christianity to contemporary cynicism, in music from Hildegard of Bingen to Richard Wagner, in literature from Edith Wharton's \u003ci\u003eAge of Innocence\u003c\/i\u003e to Kazuo Ishiguro's \u003ci\u003eThe Remains of the Day\u003c\/i\u003e, and in cinema from Michael Powell's \u003ci\u003ePeeping Tom\u003c\/i\u003e to Kieslowski's \u003ci\u003eA Short Film on Love\u003c\/i\u003e. Throughout, the contributors seek to show that the conflict between the sexes is the site of a larger battle over the destiny of modernity. With insights into the underlying target of racist and sexist violence, this book offers surprising revelations into the nature of an ancient enigma—love.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eContributors\u003c\/i\u003e. Elisabeth Bronfen, Mladen Dolar, Fredric Jameson, Renata Salecl, Slavoj Žižek, Alenka Zupancic\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47110751748336,"sku":"9780822379447","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780822379447_p0.jpg?v=1763752618","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780822379447","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}