Kant on marriage as co-ownership of genitals
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Žižek cites Kant's Metaphysics of Morals: marriage is a contract for mutual use of sexual organs, and if a husband flees, the wife can have police bring him back because he has absconded with her contractually co-owned body part. Žižek uses this to show that contemporary contractual sexuality is catching up with Kant's apparently absurd thought experiment.
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“she ran away. with part of his body, penis, which contractually was also co-owned by her.”
“Kant defines marriage: 'A contract between two adults, a contract regulating the mutual use of sex organs for pleasure.'”
“A mutual contract between two adult persons for the mutual exclusive use of their each other's sexual organs for pleasure.”
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Žižek cites Kant's Metaphysics of Morals: marriage is a contract for mutual use of sexual organs, and if a husband flees, the wife can have police bring him back because he has absconded with her contractually co-owned body part. Žižek uses this to show that contemporary contractual sexuality is catching up with Kant's apparently absurd thought experiment., illustrating contractual sexuality,desexualisation,partial object
Kant defines marriage in Metaphysics of Morals as a contract between two adults regulating the mutual use of their sex organs for pleasure, and asks whether a wife can use police to retrieve a runaway husband, since he left with her legally co-owned property (his penis)., illustrating radical evil,Kant,perversity of systematic thought
Žižek quotes Kant’s Metaphysics of Morals, defining marriage as a contract for the exclusive use of sexual organs, and notes Kant’s legalistic view that a husband running away is stealing his wife’s co-property (his penis)., illustrating partial objects,ideology
Žižek cites Kant's Metaphysics of Morals defining marriage as a contract for the mutual use of sexual organs for pleasure, followed by the argument that a wife can call the police if her husband flees because he has taken her property (his penis)., illustrating reductio of utilitarian approaches to relations,public vs. private use of reason context
Kant defines marriage as a contract for mutual use of sex organs for pleasure, then argues a wife can have police retrieve a fleeing husband because he has absconded with a body part contractually belonging to her., illustrating Kant with Sade,radical evil,pathological motivation