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This risk-taking, fearless book is a continually rewarding act of looking and feeling and thinking, insisting on their intimacy but also enacting it on the page, where Singer's intellectual reach and analytical rigor produce an abundance of arresting perceptions of sensuous aesthetic experience. * Ross Posnock, Anna Garbedian Professor of the Humanities, Columbia University, USA * Drawing elegantly on Hegel and Spinoza, as well as contemporaries like John McDowell, Alan Singer regards aesthetic depictions of sex not merely as lewd images, or objects for the male gaze, but as a matrix through which personhood is made intelligible. Posing Sex invites us to see in such images how conceptual capacities are at work in the deliverances of our senses, and how knowledge of self and others can be achieved where we least expect it. * Paul A. Kottman, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, The New School for Social Research, USA, and author of Love as Human Freedom (2017) * [R]emarkably sensitive and intricate in surveying how aesthetic moments may connect to more comprehensive aspects of life by virtue of the kinds of 'mindfulness' they pursue ... Singer deploys a unique mode of argument that we might best characterize as philosophical bricolage. * Charles Altieri, University of California, Berkeley, JML Blog Review Roundtable, JML Blog Review Roundtable * A leading virtue of Alan Singer's Posing Sex is its commitment to a theorization of literary and visual art that might please even the opponents of aesthetics. Those partisans will find no shrinking from action here ... One value of Singer's literary-critical iconoclasm lies in his ability to bring into the domain of mindedness and action texts that range from Lady Chatterley's Lover to Henry Miller's Sexus to Lolita; and to do the same for erotically-charged visual art by Balthus or Bacon or John Currin, and for the film art of Lars Von Trier. * Robert L. Caserio, The Pennsylvania State University, JML co-editor, JML Blog Review Roundtable * I urge [readers] to 'taste and see' for themselves, and in the reading of the entire book ... they will experience the surprises of informed and just critical judgments and the shocks of new aesthetic experiences. * Daniel T. O'Hara, Temple University, JML co-editor, JML Blog Review Roundtable *

This risk-taking, fearless book is a continually rewarding act of looking and feeling and thinking, insisting on their intimacy but also enacting it on the page, where Singer's intellectual reach and analytical rigor produce an abundance of arresting perceptions of sensuous aesthetic experience. * Ross Posnock, Anna Garbedian Professor of the Humanities, Columbia University, USA * Drawing elegantly on Hegel and Spinoza, as well as contemporaries like John McDowell, Alan Singer regards aesthetic depictions of sex not merely as lewd images, or objects for the male gaze, but as a matrix through which personhood is made intelligible. Posing Sex invites us to see in such images how conceptual capacities are at work in the deliverances of our senses, and how knowledge of self and others can be achieved where we least expect it. * Paul A. Kottman, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, The New School for Social Research, USA, and author of Love as Human Freedom (2017) *

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Alan Singer is Professor of English at Temple University, USA. He is the author of four critical books, including The Self-Deceiving Muse: Notice and Knowledge in the Work of Art (2010) and Aesthetic Reason: Artworks and the Deliberative Ethos (2003). He is the author of many articles on aesthetics and co-editor of Literary Aesthetics: A Reader (2001).

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