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Queer Imaginings

Hedonism, asceticism, and the transformation of desire

Chris Damian
Sep 7, 2021
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TL;DR:

  • Christians often frame desire within a choice between repression and libertinism: you either flee from desire or indulge it. But MacIntyre writes that the simple flight from desire is just a form of hedonism, taking desire as a given that decides for us how we are to live.

  • Sarah Coakley helps us see that repression isn't asceticism, because it h…

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