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Failing Desire
Language: en
Pages: 222
Authors: Karmen MacKendrick
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-12-04 - Publisher: SUNY Press

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Draws on theology and queer theory to argue for the power of humiliating pleasures in a culture oriented very strongly to denying any enjoyment that is not abou
Failing Desire
Language: en
Pages: 222
Authors: Karmen MacKendrick
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-12-04 - Publisher: State University of New York Press

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Luckily for human diversity, we are perfectly capable of desiring impossible things. Failing Desire explores a particular set of these impossibilities, those co
The Epistemology of Desire and the Problem of Nihilism
Language: en
Pages: 193
Authors: Allan Hazlett
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-04-25 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Most people have wondered whether anything really matters, some have temporarily thought that nothing really matters, and some philosophers have defended the vi
Race, Gender and Educational Desire
Language: en
Pages: 222
Authors: Heidi Safia Mirza
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-11-19 - Publisher: Routledge

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'This book is a great genealogy of black women's unrecognised contributions within both education and the wide social context. I think it constitutes an importa
The Art of Failure
Language: en
Pages: 173
Authors: Jesper Juul
Categories: Games & Activities
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-02-22 - Publisher: MIT Press

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A gaming academic offers a “fascinating” exploration of why we play video games—despite the unhappiness we feel when we fail at them (Boston Globe) We may