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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... individual object 94 6 Sexual phenomena 138 7 The science of sex 180 8 Love 213 9 Sex and gender 253 IO Perversion 284 II Sexual morality 322 12 The politics of sex 348 Epilogue 362 Appendix 1 The first person I Appendix 2 ...
... individual people I encounter are members of a natural kind -- the kind ' human being ' - and behave according to the laws of that kind . Yet I subsume people and their actions under concepts that will not figure in the formulation of ...
... individual , based in revelation and discovery , and involving a reciprocal and cooperative heightening of the common experience of embodiment . It is not directed beyond that individual , to the world at large , and it is not ...
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Contents
1 | |
16 | |
36 | |
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 |