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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... Perversion 284 II Sexual morality 322 12 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 ...
... perversion , sacred and profane ) . However , the functionality of those concepts does not imply the functionality of the beliefs which employ them . The objectivity of those beliefs may be as secure as the objectivity of science , even ...
... perversions ' and the often remarkable goals and strategies of which sexual union may form a part . I shall explore the important differences between homosexual and heterosexual desire , and between the sexuality of men and that of ...
... perversion ' ) . And if the only difference were to be found in the fact that , in the first case , the object is conceived as a person , in the second case as something essentially non - personal , and if there were no further ...
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Contents
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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 |