Sexual Desire: A Philosophical InvestigationA&C Black, 5. märts 2006 - 448 pages A dazzling treatise, as erudite and eloquent as Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex and considerably more sound in its conclusion - TLS "He is an eloquent and practised writer" - The Independent (UK) When John desires Mary or Mary desires John, what does either of them want? What is meant by innocence, passion, love and arousal, desire, perversion and shame? These are just a few of the questions Roger Scruton addresses in this thought-provoking intellectual adventure. Beginning from purely philosophical premises, and ranging over human life, art and institutions, he surveys the entire field of sexuality; equally dissatisfied with puritanism and permissiveness, he argues for a radical break with recent theories. Upholding traditional morality - though in terms that may shock many of its practitioners - his argument gravitates to that which is candid, serene and consoling in the experience of sexual love. |
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A Philosophical Investigation Roger Scruton. First published by Continuum in 2006 The Tower Building 11 York Road London SE1 7NX www.continuumbooks.com 80 Maiden Lane Suite 704 New York , NY 10038 www.continuumbooks.com Reprinted 2006 First ...
... The politics of sex 348 Epilogue 362 Appendix 1 The first person I Appendix 2 Intentionality 364 377 Notes Index of Names 392 419 Index of Subjects 424 This page intentionally left blank PREFACE The subject of sexual Contents.
... first we exist as agents , taking command of our destiny and relating to each other through conceptions that have no place in the scientific view of the universe . In the second we exist as organisms , driven by an arcane causality and ...
... first kind can be attributed to the lower animals : perhaps they can . A dog may feel pleasure , we are apt to suppose , at the prospect of a walk or about his master's return . There are of course highly intricate problems here , and ...
... first the thought , and secondly the desire , to which it refers . - In speaking of ' thought ' I am conscious of speaking somewhat loosely . The ' representational ' nature of our mental states cannot always be comfortably described by ...
Contents
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4 Desire | 59 |
5 The individual object | 94 |
6 Sexual phenomena | 138 |
7 The science of sex | 180 |
8 Love | 213 |
11 Sexual morality | 322 |
12 The politics of sex | 348 |
Epilogue | 362 |
Appendix 1 The first person | 364 |
Appendix 2 Intentionality | 377 |
Notes | 392 |
Index of Names | 419 |
Index of Subjects | 424 |