By Sanjay K. Gautam
Gautam indicates how heavily intertwined the historical past of erotics in Indian tradition is with the background of theater-aesthetics grounded within the discourse of affection, and Foucault presents the framework for starting up an highbrow horizon of Indian notion. to do that, Gautam seems to the historical past of 3 inglorious characters in classical India: the courtesan and her closest male companions—her shopper, the dandy consort; and her instructor and consultant, the dandy guru. Foucault’s contrast among erotic arts and the technology of sexuality drives Gautam’s exploration of the courtesan as an emblem of either sexual-erotic and aesthetic excitement. finally, by way of entwining jointly Foucault’s works at the heritage of sexuality within the West and the classical Indian texts on eros, Gautam transforms our figuring out of either, whilst he opens up new methods of investigating erotics, aesthetics, gender family, and subjectivity.
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