Table of Contents

1. Senses and Things; 2. Sex Plateau; 3. God, Animal, Thing; 4. Descartes and the Thing that Feels; 5. Becoming Extraneous Clothing; 6. Exemplary Addictions; 7. Kant and the Spouse as Thing; 8. Sadism and Sex Appeal of the Inorganic; 9. Philosophical Cybersex; 10. Kant and the Feeling of the Thing in itself; 11. Masochism and Sex Appeal of the Inorganic; 12. Bodies as Clothing; 13. Hegel and the Thing as 'not this'; 14. Fetishism and Sex Appeal of the Inorganic; 15. Hardcore Sonority; 16. Hedge; and the Thing as 'also'; 17. Vampirism and Sex Appeal of the Inorganic; 18. Plastic Landscapes; 19. Hegel and the Thing 'all of one cast'; 20. Desire and Sex Appeal of the Inorganic; 21. Overflowing Installations; 22. Heidegger and the Thing as Relability; 23. Division and Sex Appeal of the Inorganic; 24. Inclusive Metawritings; 25. Pleasure and Sex Appeal of the Inorganic; 26. Perverse Performance

About the Author

Mario Perniola is Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Rome at Tor Vergata. His books in English include Enigmas: The Egyptian Moment in Society and Art and Ritual Thinking: Sexuality, Death, World.