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'This philosophical meditation on presence and defense of the delights of enclosure comes closer to the essence of sanctity, to touching, and being touched by, (saintly) bodies than any I have ever read. Bodies at thresholds, emerging through metonymy, from spaces they never leave, and into which they never really fit - -this is theoretical magic - -unique, queer, and, in every sense, touching. Howie questions the possibility of ever really coming out, of ever owning what one touches, of seeing surfaces as invitations rather than barriers. In his hands, prose becomes poetry and academic prose takes flight.' - Bill Burgwinkle, King's College, University of Cambridge
'Claustrophilia is about the relation of enclosure and proximity to scholarship, medieval devotional practices, philosophy, literary history, and love. Howie explores the poetics of permeable contiguities - ancient and modern, subject and object, text and touch - with a powerfully lyrical resonance that performs, even as it advocates, an ethics and erotics of literary critical practice.' - Carla Freccero, UCSC
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Book Title: Identity, Ethics, and Nonviolence in Postcolonial Theory
Book Subtitle: A Rahnerian Theological Assessment
Authors: Susan Abraham
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230604131
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-7070-1Published: 08 June 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-53240-7Published: 08 June 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-60413-1Published: 30 April 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 242
Topics: Christian Theology, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Gender Studies, Sociology, general, Philosophy of Religion