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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... emotion and experience which may very well be hampered by too great an attention to the underlying order of things ... emotions ( the fearful , the lovable , the disgust- ing ) , and classifications relative to aesthetic interest ( the ...
... emotion and desire . Each of these mental states marks out a space , as it were , before me — a gap into which an object may be fitted . My fear is fear of something , my perception perception of something , and so on . Sometimes I am ...
... emotion . The point is a general one : the scientific 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 ...
... emotions and perceptions which are available to us , only because of our susceptibility to sexual desire . Much of ... emotion , which leads us into the most desperate behaviour , and yet which starts up from the smallest circumstance ...
... emotion , when the belief upon which it is founded is shown to be false . Thus sexual pleasure , like an emotion , may be in conflict with the facts . The man who feels pleasure , mistaking another's touch for the touch of his lover ...
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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 |