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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... contains passages of difficult argument , designed to provide foundations for the central discussion . Most of these passages occur in Chapter 3 and in the two appendices . However , the reader who ignores these sections will be able to ...
... contain no classification corresponding to our idea of an ornamental marble . On the contrary , it is likely to dispense with all such classifications , which tend to dissolve just as soon as we reach below the surface of human ...
... contain large explan- atory elements - for you cannot act successfully without a system of belief . And to possess a belief is to be committed to the pursuit of truth , and hence to the construction of scientific theories , and to the ...
... contains the seeds of all that is distinctive in the sexuality of the rational being . - Sexual arousal - considered , for example , in the terms favoured by the Kinsey Report 1 , and by other such exercises in reduction is often ...
... contains an anticipation of the next . Excitement can exist in both non - intentional and intentional forms - as a general state of heightened response , and as a particular state of excitement about or over some matter of interest . In ...
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 |