Ecstatic Morality and Sexual Politics: A Catholic and Antitotalitarian Theory of the Body (Moral Philosophy and Moral Theology)

This first book-length treatment of Thomas Aquinas s
theory of the body presents a Catholic understanding
of the body and its implications for social and political
philosophy. Making a fundamental contribution to
antitotalitarian theory, McAleer argues that a sexual politics
reliant upon Aquinas s theory of the body is better (because
less violent) than other commonly available theories.
He contrasts this theory with those of four other groups
of thinkers: the continental tradition represented by Kant,
Schopenhauer, Merleau-Ponty, Nancy, Levinas, and Deleuze;
feminism, in the work of Donna Haraway; an alternative
Catholic theory to be found in Karl Rahner; and the
Radical Orthodoxy of John Milbank.