Sexual Desire: A Philosophical InvestigationA&C Black, 05.03.2006 - 448 Seiten 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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... attempt to divide the world according to the requirements of everyday theoretical and practical reason.12 The classifications which define the ' phenomenological kinds ' of the Lebenswelt are only partly responsive to the enterprise of ...
... attempt to restore the concept of sexual desire to its rightful place in the description of the Lebenswelt , and to show in detail why a science of sex can neither displace that concept nor illuminate the human phenomenon that it ...
... attempt to understand the world in terms of the concepts through which we experience and act on it : these concepts identify the ' intentional object ' of our everyday states of mind . An intentional understanding , therefore , fills ...
... attempt to penetrate to ' the depths ' of human things is accompanied almost universally by a loss of response to the ' surface ' . Yet it is on the surface that we live and act : it is there that we are created , as complex appearances ...
... attempt to extend and deepen the realm of ' intentional understanding ' . Nothing can serve to illuminate the intentionality of our natural human responses , save analysis of the concepts which are involved in it . This attempt to ...
Inhalt
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 |