Welcome to The Philosophy of Sex, long-play, I’m your host Caroline Moreau-Hammond. You might remember the name Jeanne Proust from our third episode of season 1 ‘Why is sex still taboo?’.
Professor and Philosopher, Jeanne Proust (no relation to Marcel Proust) is a post-doctoral teaching fellow at Fordham University and an adjunct professor at New York University and Pace University in the United States. She has studied Philosophy and Visual Arts in Bordeaux, Berlin, and Paris and her PhD dissertation at the Panthéon-Sorbonne focused on the pathologies of willpower, both in philosophical and psychological perspectives, but her interests are wide including, Ethics, Philosophy of Technologies, Bioethics, Feminist theory, and Aesthetics.
Jeanne is an advocate for a widening of philosophical education beyond academic frontiers; she regularly gives public talks in philosophy and produces her own podcast, "Can You Phil It?” which aims to make philosophical texts and ideas accessible to a wider audience.
In this episode, Jeanne and I examine taboo, the important role transgression plays in desire, the trivialisation of sexuality and the need for more nuanced conversations about taboo and sexuality.
Because we weren’t able to include everything in Episode 1 of The Philosophy of Sex, please enjoy our full interview.
Resources:
Can You Phil It podcast: Apple & Spotify
Recommended reading by Jeanne:
Virginie Despentes, King Kong Theory, 2006.
Michael Sandel, What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets, 2012.
Andrea Dworkin, Pornography: Men Possessing Women, 1981.
Catherine Millet, The Sexual Life of Catherine M., 2001
Ann Cahill, Overcoming objectification, A Carnal Ethics, 2011.
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Credits:
Creator & host: Caroline Moreau-Hammond
Editor & original music: Zoltan Fecso